Just wondering how to phrase the following: "He may have been a bad person".
Would it be "Quizá puede haber sido una mala persona" or "Quizá fuese/fuera una mala persona"?
I would go for the latter but am unsure.
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Sign up to join this communityI would actually remove "quizás" and use either of these:
The difference lies in the "temporal distance": if "being a bad person" happened a long time ago, then "puede que fuera" reflects that fact. If instead it happened recently, then "puede que haya sido" is closer in time.