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Help the indignant Victorian ghost complain about the new homeowners by choosing the correct phrase for each gap in her diary entry.

How dare they paint the parlor in such a ghastly shade of neon pink! They really ought to have consulted me first, seeing as I have been haunting this estate for over a century.

How dare they paint the parlor...

In idiomatic interrogative sentences expressing outrage, the modal dare uses subject-auxiliary inversion and takes a bare infinitive without "to" (How dare you speak!). The subject must be in the nominative case (they, not them).

They really ought to have consulted me first...

Ought is a marginal modal that requires "to" (unlike most modals). To express criticism of a past action that should have happened but didn't, we use the perfect infinitive (have + past participle). "Had" can never follow the particle "to".

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