关于Should的意思和用法的提问

A: "needs to", "He should have a haircut" means "He needs to have a haircut".

A: If you want to leave early, then you have to give the hotel a letter a month before leaving.

A: It is a question asking whether someone (not specified, could be the school or the government) should request students to judge the performance or quality of their teachers. It could be asking your opinion, or it could be posing an ethical or philosophical question.

A:

やっぱり、直訳したら、shouldは「べき」だけど、もうちょっとちかい訳は
「いつか会いに来てね」　です。

A: In this case, "should I" means "if I" so the person is talking about the future.

"Covenant" is like a promise.

Edit: "should I" like this sounds a little old fashioned. It's not common to speak it.

A: Nobody says “shall” anymore. Saying “should” means you’re suggesting something. “We should go to the park.” “Must” means it’s something important that has to happen. “We must find the cat”. “Have to” is pretty much the same as must “we have to find the cat” or “we have to get milk from the shops”. Owe means you have to return the favour. “I owe Sam £10” or “we owe it to them to keep going”

A: You should have arrived home earlier (that means you did not arrive earlier)
I should have apologised ( I did not apologise you)
Tim should have looked after his parents ( that means Tim didn't look after them)

A: We should hang out this weekend.

I should go to the gym, but I'm feeling lazy...

I should probably study for this test... but, I won't. 😅

A: 1. We use SHOULD mainly to:
- give advice or make recommendation;
- talk about obligation;
- talk about probability and expectation;
- express the conditional mood;
- replace a subjunctive.

You should have seen it. It was really beautiful.

2. We use WOULD mainly to:
- talk about the past;
- talk about future in the past;
- express the conditional mood;
- express despire;
- polite requests and questions;
- opinion or hope;
- wish or hope.

I would rather go shopping today.

3. We use COULD mainly to:
- talk about possibilities/abilites to do thing in the past;
- make requests.

My grandmother could speak seven languages.

A: 1. It should be ready by tomorrow.
2. The test should be finished within an hour.
3. He should be here by now.
4. You should be prepared for the event.
5. Why should I be going to the doctor?
6. She should be studying [but she isn't].

A: I should go home because it’s late.
I’m able to go home because I have a car.
I have to go home because my dog needs to go out.

A: they mean the same thing. and...probably not!

A: ‘Should’ is said if the person needs to do something (but not doing it) . ‘Shall’ is saying a person is going to do something. Here’s some example sentences if you are confused: She SHOULD do her homework. I SHALL go to the shopping centre.

A: Should= suggestion, you don’t need to do it.
Must= you need to do it.

You should try and eat better food.

You must drink water.

A: @learning257

Should we go downstairs and have a glass of wine?

and

Shall we go downstairs and have a glass of wine?

have exactly the same meaning - do you want to? Is it a good idea?

I'm sorry that your teacher said that Should is past tense. That is a really ridiculous thing to say.

Should is used to set up statements and questions which say - I ought to do something/it's better if I do this/is it better if I do this? - and so on.

After dinner, we should take a walk. 👍
Should we take a walk? 👍

Obviously, both of these are referring to the future.

Should is very flexible.

After dinner, we shall take a walk. 👍
Shall we take a walk? 👍

The second sentence has the same meaning, but the first has changed. Instead of saying "it would be a good idea to walk", it now says "we are definitely walking"

A:

In the sentences you gave, where you put the word “really” changed the definition of the sentence a little bit.

If you say “Finally, love really was the cure”, it sounds like the person (saying the sentence) didn’t really believe that “love” was the cure at first. It’s almost like a sentence of disbelief, since the person feels like they were proved wrong and that love “really was” the cure.

- It could also mean that the person first thought that love was the cure, but they were doubtful. So when it turned out that love was the cure, they’re saying “really was” as an affirmation - they believed it completely.

If you say “Finally, love was really the cure”, it sounds like there were multiple things that people thought were the cure, and it turned out to be “love” that was the cure. It is used usually at the end of a ‘story’.

- For example, if people are trying to find the cure, they might think that it could be family or happiness. At the end of the story, it turns out that it was actually the love between family and friends. So they might say “Finally, love was really the cure.”

I hope this helps! At the end of the day, you need to think about what you are trying to say, and change the sentence depending on the meaning. Both of these sentences work, depending on the situation and context. Good question 😊😊

A: Should I have waited for him even though I didn’t have an idea (of) when he would come?
* double negatives

OR
Should I have waited for him even though I have no idea (of) when he would come?



Ah, I can’t reply to your other post since you have already closed it and this one. Can you open it or re-ask? @HHHHHenry

A: If you don’t mean cleaning, then just say tidy up the room. The dash is unnecessary.

A: Both are acceptable.
I think cut is more common. I think of chop as cutting into many pieces.

A: Go with "Since then, the trade war has broken out."

A: This is how I would usually say these things, hope this helps:

Should we put it away somewhere or leave it on the table?

For the spouse visa, different laws may apply.

It had only been two weeks since I had met him; I barely knew him at that time.

Do you think it's a good time for you to consider getting married?

This pasta is one of a kind.

Once you step into the next stage, the friendship you guys have will be broken. Are you willing to take all the risks? There is no way to go back to how it used to be.

The quality of my sleep has gotten worse as I continue with a low-fat diet.

A: as far as i know no such superstition exists in any english speaking country.

A: Had is the only correct option. This is conditional number 1

A: I have not yet found a good way to explain why articles work when they work. You are right, it is a general statement and no specific forest is meant by the speaker of the sentence. For some reason, we just say ‘the forest’ in this case.

A: Ого теперь все понятно. Да тогда ваш вопрос уже понятен. Я бы сказал: here we spell color "colour".

You can also say "we spell color like colour."