{"id":1763,"date":"2017-01-21T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2017-01-21T09:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:11:33","slug":"using-ought-to-and-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/using-ought-to-and-should\/","title":{"rendered":"Using ought to and should"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The words <strong>ought to and should<\/strong> have the same meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Study the following sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What <strong>ought I to<\/strong> do?<\/p>\n<p>This means the same as?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What <strong>should I<\/strong> do?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rewrite the following sentences using \u2018ought to\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. You should go home now.<\/p>\n<p>2. You should consult a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>3. She should be here soon.<\/p>\n<p>4. I should leave now.<\/p>\n<p>5. You should help your mother.<\/p>\n<p>6. Where should I go?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. You <strong>ought to<\/strong> go home now.<\/p>\n<p>2. You <strong>ought to<\/strong> consult a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>3. She <strong>ought to<\/strong> be here soon.<\/p>\n<p>4. I <strong>ought to<\/strong> leave now.<\/p>\n<p>5. You <strong>ought to<\/strong> help your mother.<\/p>\n<p>6. Where <strong>ought I to<\/strong> go?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Modal auxiliary verbs are usually followed by an infinitive without to. Ought is an exception to this rule. It is followed by an infinitive with to.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You <strong>should wait<\/strong> for me. (NOT You should to wait for me.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You<strong> ought to wait<\/strong> for me. (NOT You ought wait for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words ought to and should have the same meaning. Study the following sentence. What ought I to do? This means the same as? What should I do? Rewrite the following sentences using \u2018ought&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-should-and-ought-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}