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What do we use when we want to give URGENT advice?




Which is the most common way to ask the following question?




Which of the following statements is the least polite?





"Should" and "Ought to" have a very similar meaning when giving advice.





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64 Comments on “How to Give Advice in English – SHOULD, OUGHT TO, HAD BETTER”

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Dear Teachers!
Thanks a lot for Your exqusite yesterday’s Grammar classes.
Sincerely Yours!
M.Krutykova

Sunday, August 30th 2009

Nice lesson Alex, thanks

Sunday, August 30th 2009

I like your teaching, thanks a lot.

Monday, August 31st 2009

Could you tell me; where’s the difference between: “somebody SHOULD DO something.” vs. “somebody SHOULD BE DOING something”?

Monday, August 31st 2009

    They are both sentences which give advice, with slightly different intentions. “Somebody should do something” is the simple present, meaning that it’s general advice and that someone should do something, but they are not doing it yet. “Somebody should be doing something” is the present progressive/continuous tense, and advises that someone should be doing something RIGHT NOW. They are both very close in meaning.

    Friday, September 11th 2009Reply to this comment

I loved it. Excelent lesson! I am a new member and I think you should post other lessons like that :) :) :)

Friday, September 4th 2009

    Thank you for your compliment, and I will keep doing my best to post more useful lessons for the visitors of this site.

    Friday, September 11th 2009Reply to this comment

Thanks for the class very interesting …

Wednesday, September 9th 2009

Thanks for your lessons and your entire website.
I have a suggestion.
Why don’t you filter noise out your lesson.
It will hear better and more comfortable.
Many softwares now can do it easily, effectively, swiftly.

; )

Thursday, September 10th 2009

thank for ur lesson i want to when we use would have,could have, should have

Wednesday, September 16th 2009

    Great suggestion. Thank you, and I will try to make a lesson on these in the future.

    Saturday, September 19th 2009Reply to this comment

      Dear Sir,

      we couldn’t find this lesson as you promised us. please post this lesson. thanks

      Wednesday, July 14th 2010

    Hello, Alex! Hello, Bijo! I really appreciate your Lessons, Alex. And I would be delighted to learn more about using “would have”, “could have”, “should have” (Bijo suggestion), and other forms of these modals. Thank you in advance.

    Tuesday, September 29th 2009Reply to this comment

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Saturday, September 19th 2009

it is lucky not luch. its spelling mistake.

Saturday, September 19th 2009

Dear Alex,
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Sunday, September 20th 2009

Hi
dear teacher
could u tell me what the distinguishes between on the should and shall? if can, please give some examples

thank you so much

Friday, October 2nd 2009

    example
    shall i bring something for you??
    (we use only for asking )

    should i bring something for you??
    (here we feel thats better for you but im asking to you)

    understand now thats so easy to use….

    Saturday, October 10th 2009Reply to this comment

Thank’s,you’re perfect teacher!

Saturday, October 3rd 2009

thanks for a free english lessons..I do really appreciate it a lot.. and I am so glad that I have found this website you know I have been looking for it..thank you teacher Alex!!!……………

Wednesday, October 7th 2009

thanks teacher

Saturday, October 10th 2009

Hi respectfully teacher…

“now you goes now you comes”
why do we use this sentence ?????
please reply me fast..
your newly student
Sohail khan

Saturday, October 10th 2009

Your explanation is very clear and your pronouncing too.Thank you very much for your lessons and this is exactly the website I was looking for.I don’t know how to thank all of you.I don’t only brush my information and learn very important things in English, but also learn how to explain well and effectively because I am a teacher of English.But I noticed that there is not daily adding of videoes and information.I wish you success and for this website to be the most famous one in learning and teaching English.

Friday, October 16th 2009

Hi Alex,

It my first lesson and it is soooo great, thank you. I didn’t know ‘should’ can be used for avice. Most of Korean students and I are accustomed to using ‘should’ only for duty. For example, ‘You should study hard to go to that school.
Is it common to use for advice? Do people have to understand on context??

Thursday, October 22nd 2009

hi alex..
thank you so much for your lessons. It was really very useful for me. I’m your student from India. Can you please tell me how to increase my verbal knowledge?
Thanks in advance

Saturday, October 24th 2009

hi Alex, thank you . My english have improving when I had start to study in you web. Thanks

Saturday, November 14th 2009

please explain the complete meaning of preposition : “with, by, of ,from etc.”means it’s detailed explaination

Thursday, November 19th 2009

I am a filipino,and this engvid is very useful for me…thank you so much!

Saturday, November 21st 2009

Yeah,.i agree lilprinz07,.this video is very useful,.thank you teacher Alex!

Tuesday, November 24th 2009

I have question about “had better”
u said we can use “had better” when A gives a stronger advice
what I wanna know is if “had better” can add “than~” or not
ex) I’d better eat this food than die
I know rather “than” is formal
I just wanna had better~ than~ is possible or impossible
cause I’m not american, there is somethin confusing
pliz give me a mail! : )
ur lecture so nice kk

Saturday, December 12th 2009

Hi,Alex
I am very lucky to find this Web site because all of you are wanderfull teachers.
Your teaching is wonderful.I haven’t seen good teachers as you are.Thank you very much

Tuesday, December 15th 2009

hi alex

i am very interesting with your teaching and i can got a lot thing frome your lesson . i think your lesson is suitable with begining learner. now i have just starded study english so your lesson it was very useful to me. i don’t know how to said thank you but i am enjoying your lesson very much. i want to learn more lesson

thank anyway

Tuesday, December 29th 2009

i am a newer and comfrom vietnamese . your lessons are always great . thank you very much. i would like to watch more . thanks again !

Friday, January 15th 2010

Hi!
Can you show me around the room. where you teach. If you can show me the outsite too. I just want to know please!
Thank you very much.

Thursday, January 21st 2010

can you bring us more of advices pls thanks for other lessons

Thursday, February 11th 2010

hi alex,thank you for your all help.god bless you.

Tuesday, February 23rd 2010

hi mr.Alex ,thank you for all help

Wednesday, February 24th 2010

Thanks Alex

Wednesday, March 3rd 2010

Thanks Alex for you help.

Thursday, March 4th 2010

I always think your helps.

thank you Alex.^^

Thursday, March 11th 2010

I was not present in English, and I missed that lesson, but thanks to you, I got a good grade in the examination.^^

( Sorry my English sucks ><)

Thursday, March 25th 2010

What about this phrase,
“ought you should know”
Is it grammatically correct?
Any other suggestion to replace this?

Tuesday, March 30th 2010

how i can use have got to/has giving andive i need some examples

Saturday, April 3rd 2010

alex! your lessons are very interesting and suitable. thank you very much! In July I have a IELTS exam. I need a help with my speaking. If you can give any advises than I will appreciate it. Thanks.

Sunday, April 11th 2010

I used these videos in my class and found them interesting to my students. They were used as a tool for motivation and a tool for reinforcement. My students liked them and asked for more.
thanks a million.

Thursday, April 22nd 2010

Thanks you Alex.

Friday, May 14th 2010

Thanks you Alex.

Tuesday, May 18th 2010

Hi Alex,
I really have problems with past perfect.Could you helpe-me?

Monday, May 24th 2010

hi sir , thank you for your good explaination

Tuesday, June 1st 2010

thank u you are great your way of teach easy please can u teach us the rule of if byyyyyye

Wednesday, June 2nd 2010

i would like to know how i can enroll on your clases thank you alex

Thursday, June 10th 2010

i have one doubt
example : ‘if u dnt follow my advice, you have to face the consequeces’.
in the above example ,is it correct to start a clause with ‘if’

Wednesday, June 16th 2010

Interesting lesson…..thanks Alex

Wednesday, June 16th 2010

Thanks a lot Alex. Your have a lovely teaching style :)

Sunday, June 20th 2010

thanks a lot to all my teaches in engvid
but i am a beginner in english
so i want to lessons from basics
could u please do for me

Monday, June 21st 2010

I like all the lessons in website..i m a beginner..need a schedule,means from where to start……please can u help

Tuesday, June 29th 2010

Alex , really i love your lessons… i had better watch all your lessons…

Tuesday, June 29th 2010

thank you for your effort in order to improve ourselves in modal verbs and i wish if you will do other courses about that

Tuesday, July 6th 2010

Thank u 4 ur effort

Friday, July 9th 2010

thank you

Friday, July 9th 2010

Thank you so much .

Sunday, July 11th 2010

Hi Alex ! Good lesson ! thank you !

Thursday, July 15th 2010

hi Alex.. great videos..
i’m learning so much..
thank you..
and God bless you..

Monday, July 19th 2010
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