Is the sentence "How dare you have shot me?" correct? [closed]
Taking dare to be a modal auxiliary verb, there is nothing wrong with the construction
How dare you have shot me?
Dare gives modal meaning of "have the courage necessary" or "take the risk of", the perfect have marks past time, and shot denotes the action.
There are several precedents of this usage:
And how dare she have failed under the grinding of the world! (I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, Hannah Green, 1964)
Nick was grateful for the community and put off by the community, and wished with an aggression he had not felt in some time that his wife were here to relieve him of having to make all the decisions. How dare she have left him alone. (LET'S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE; Maazel, Fiona;Harper's Magazine, Vol. 332, Iss. 1993, (Jun 2016): 71-72,74-77.)
If they did say that, how dare they have said it (Mr_Tom_Cox, House of Commons (49), asbestos_power_station_hansard_28_july_1983)
Other modal auxiliaries are certainly allowed in similar constructions as the perfect is there to mark the past time of the situation (CaGEL p203):
He needn’t / should / might / could have told her.
We might / could have been in Africa.
If he hadn’t lied she would / might have forgiven him.
I wish I could have persuaded her.
All of the above are declaratives, but could just as well be turned into interrogatives. So, though uncommon, it seems that the grammar would allow dare in similar constructions as well.