{"id":72828,"date":"2019-11-11T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72828"},"modified":"2019-11-11T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T08:56:34","slug":"had-better-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/had-better-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Had Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use had better to tell people what we think they should do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You had better turn that music down before dad gets angry.<\/li>\n<li>You had better consult a doctor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Had better<\/strong> is also used to give advice to ourselves.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is seven o\u2019clock. I had better put the meat in the oven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Had better may suggest a threat. It is not used in polite requests.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Could you lend me some money? (Request)<\/li>\n<li>You had better lend me some money. (If you don\u2019t, there will be trouble.) (Order\/threat)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grammar Notes<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Had better<\/strong> refers to the immediate future, but the form is always past. Have better is impossible. After had better we use the infinitive without to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is late \u2013 you had better hurry up. (NOT You had better hurried up.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In British English, better can come before had for emphasis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018I promise I will pay you back\u2019. \u2018You better had\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use had better to tell people what we think they should do. You had better turn that music down before dad gets angry. You had better consult a doctor. Had better is also&#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":[1310,1516],"class_list":["post-72828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-had-better","tag-using-had-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72828","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=72828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72829,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72828\/revisions\/72829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}