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Aditileo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Had or Should?

I read a sentence: These people are not on culinary adventures they are there to eat the food they know well. *And food had better be perfect.*

I think Had should be replaced with "should" because it is talking of something in general and not in past. What do you think?
  

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'Should' = 'had better be'. We can use the idiomatic phrase in any time frame.

— Mister Micawber

  • 'Should' = 'had better be'.
  • We can use the idiomatic phrase in any time frame.
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'Should' = 'had better be'. We can use the idiomatic phrase in any time frame.
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aditileoThese people are not on culinary adventures they are there to eat the food they know well. *And food had better be perfect.
These people are not on culinary adventures; they are there to eat the food they know well. And the food had better be perfect.
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