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- Why should I use ought to? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
While the usage of ought to has been declining steadily in the last 300 years, it is still incredibly common (The linked Ngram shows that it is roughly 1 3 as frequent as the word table today, and table is not at all an obscure word ) The question is when should you use it, and when to use should or must
- What is the meaning of ought not? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Verbs like ought, should, must, have to express degrees of desirability or probability, neither of which really apply to non-sentient things like branches Maybe the branches "ought not reach" according to the writer's preconceived notions of whether they were likely to
- How is ought used in this King James Bible verse?
10 'Ought' is an archaic spelling of 'aught', which is another old word meaning 'anything' or 'any' So the meaning is: None of the believers considered that any of the things they owned were theirs This is born out by more modern translations of the passage E g All the believers were one in heart and mind
- What does double oughts mean? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
The use of "aught" and "ought" to mean "zero" is very much proscribed as the word "aught" actually means the opposite of "naught": "anything" This may be due to misanalysis, or may simply be the result of unknowing speakers confusing the meanings of "aught" and "naught" due to similar-sounding phonemes
- modal verbs - Is it appropriate to omit to after ought? - English . . .
Is it appropriate to omit to after ought? I ought to be disciplined for my insolence Vs I ought be disciplined for my insolence Is it okay to omit the to?
- Indispensability of to after ought in British English
Ought to is a unit In older English texts, or modern texts whose authors are trying to sound old, one occasionally comes across ought separated from its to (?_Ought I to awaken him?_) but nobody would ever speak English that way except on a stage In Modern English, oughtta is sufficiently fused to have developed its own "eye spelling", like wanna, gotta, shoulda, wouldna, and hafta Ought is
- meaning - Difference between should and ought to - English Language . . .
What is the difference between You should go and You ought to go? I rarely use the latter
- grammar - ought with or without to? - English Language Usage . . .
It depends on whether the speaker has internalized ought as a separate item from oughtta It's got no other use and it's rare with an uncomplemented infinitive Phrases such as I ought never to have invited him feel odd, like formalized variants made up on the spot It's much more likely to be should never have, with no to
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