What's the difference between these sentences?
Hi there!I wanted to ask a friend this question but I got confused translating korean to english.I wonder what is the difference between these sentences.- You must be at the wedding now- I soppose you are at the wedding now- You are suppoed to be at the wedding now- You must have been at the wedding by nowI basically was going to say this "지금쯤 결혼식장이겠구나!" and please let me know how you say this in English. Thank you.

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You must be at the wedding now' = I am confident of this fact+ there is evidence
'I suppose you are at the wedding now' = High possibility of this being true, the event was mentioned previously
'You are supposed to be at the wedding now' = You are not at the wedding, but you aggreed to be there. I am surprised/angry
'You must have been at the wedding by now' = lexically incorrect. You must have ARRIVED at the wedding by now - We both know the time you should arrive, that time is past

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1) <> and 2) <> are the same. They mean you think he is at the wedding at this moment. 3) <> means that he had to be at the wedding, but he is not (or he is, but you don't know that). 4) <> doesn't make much sense, because we're talking about a wedding that supposedly is happening right now, yet you're using the verb in the past "have been". It should be <>, which is pretty much like 1) and 2), only in this case the focus is on being/not being late, because you're using "by now".

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You have to be at the wedding now

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