2014年1月13日 · You'd has two meanings, which are you had and you would. 1 We use you had with better and you would with rather. You had is usually used for suggestion. Example: You'd better (you had better) avoid the stalls on the street. So you'd means you had in your first sentence. Your second sentence is grammatically wrong.

2021年1月14日 · You’d better wear a hat! Depending on the context, there are many different ways to express your opinion of what you think someone should do. Without more context, the simplest way would be to replace “had better” with “should”. You could preface it with “I think” to soften it even more. I think you should wear a hat.

@Michael Edenfield: I'm 70 years old, working class, & a graduate of a snooty Ivy League university, so I know what the traditional polite response is (I learned it in university if not before from scenes in snooty movies), but it ain't common among Americans these days, not in a country where receptionists & others I've never met insist on presumptuously calling me "Bill" instead …

2011年3月15日 · My late uncle, who loved to be humorously sarcastic and throw people a bit of surprise would often respond, "You'd better watch out, because I might tell you." My grandmother, a classy woman, would actually answer a bit about how she was feeling that day - "I have a headache and arthritis and constipation and ....

2024年1月23日 · Facebook "sharing" (and similar) is actually a new meaning of the word, I think you'd agree, "to publish or 'post' content to social media on the internet". In pre-internet times we might have said "I shared my pet's disappearance with the neighborhood" but we would not have said "I shared my pet's disappearance to the bulletin board at the ...

2021年12月26日 · When someone responds to something you said with "You do that.", what do they mean exactly? Is this phrase used in a sarcastic way? A couple of dialogue examples would be appreciated.

2014年2月5日 · I'm looking for a word that means the opposite of what one would expect. This word might be used to express the surprise that a teenager's grandmother uses text messaging much more than he does, or...

How can we unambiguously distinguish between I would and I had, if the native English speaker used the contraction I'd? For instance, I'd read the newspaper. We can mean the above sentence as eit...

Sorry for the confusion, actually I need to know why the answer not "to explain "The answer is not "to explain" because "would rather" takes the simple form of the verb - present simple when referring to your own actions, and past simple when referring to someone else's actions.

2011年7月28日 · Actually I believe that both variants can be technically correct, but they are saying very different things, and using the "you to" variant is mostly done as a mistake where "that you" would have been correct.