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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffli" data-source="post: 11929424" data-attributes="member: 382922"><p><strong>Special grammar</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"><u><strong>Special grammar</strong></u></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">"You had better sleep now."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">But at speech we simply drop 'had' most of the time and only say "You better</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">sleep now" or "You best sleep now"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">Here we are saying this as giving an advice about present or future, like "You</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">should sleep now". </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">Other ex:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">"You'd better tell her everything."  (Here, You'd = You had)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">"You'd better not say anything."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">"I'd better get back to work."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">"We'd better meet early."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">"I'd better not come."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">But we don't usually use 'had better + bare infinitive' to give a general advice.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">When we give a general advice, we always use 'should', for ex. "You should</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">brush your teeth before you go to bed". But we can use 'should' to give both</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'">general and specific advice.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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