When you had planned something, and it didn't occur the way you expect it, can you say:
(storytelling)''Oh man, it was not the result I expected it should be''
Did the bold letters(phrase) usage correct?
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2I would just say "Oh man, it was not the result I expected."– J. TaylorCommented May 3, 2018 at 4:38
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Yeah, but can you go further by adding ''should be''– John ArvinCommented May 3, 2018 at 5:09
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1If you have to extend it, it sounds more fluent to say "would be", because it's a past-tense conditional ("I had expected the result would be X if _____").– stangdonCommented May 3, 2018 at 15:22
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As @stangdon points out
It was not the result I expected it would be.
or you could also use
It's not what I expected. (applicable to anything)
or referring to the ending in your examples
It didn't end in the way I expected.
The ending was unexpected. (more generalized to not just you)
No, it's a duplication. We can say
The result I expected
Which is a transformation of
I expected the result
and
I expected it should be XXX
Your formulation joins the two.
However, I think in informal conversation we might use such a construct; when speaking we do tend to slip in extra phrases, while we think of what to say next, or we lose track of our sentence structure. In formal, written work we remove such extra verbiage.
