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Futurehuman11 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

difference between the two sentence?

Is there a difference between the two sentences below? Does the use of 'had' have to be there for the sentence to be syntaxically correct?

You had better do your homework.

You better do your homework.
  

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Hi F11, I'd say yes and yes . I believe the shortened version is colloquial - certainly not formal. A compromise would be the contraction, You'd better do your homework .

— Avangi

  • Hi F11, I'd say yes and yes .
  • I believe the shortened version is colloquial - certainly not formal.
  • A compromise would be the contraction, You'd better do your homework .
  • Is syntaxically a word?
  • I was thinking syntactically .
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Hi F11,

I'd say yes and yes. I believe the shortened version is colloquial - certainly not formal. A compromise would be the contraction, You'd better do your homework.

Is syntaxically a word? I was thinking syntactically. I'd better look it up!

Regards, - A.

Edit. Ha! I was right! syntacti
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