Ought to

Definition

ought to /'ↄ:t tǝ; before vowels and finally 'ↄ:t tu/ modal v ( neg ought not to, short form esp Brit oughtn't to /'ↄ:tnt/ ) ၁။ သင့္သည္။ ထိုက္သည္။ Children ought to respect their parents. ❍ ‘Ought I to write to say thank you?’ ‘Yes, I think you ought (to). ’ ❍ You ought to apologize. ❍ You ought to have apologized (ie but you didn't). ❍ Such things ought not to be allowed. ❍ They oughtn't to let their dog run on the road. ❍ She ought to have been more tactful. ၂။ သင့္သည္။ ထိုက္သည္။ Children ought to be able to read by the age of 7. ❍ There ought to be more buses during the rush hour. ၃။ သင့္သည္။ You ought to improve your French before going to work in Paris. ❍ We ought to be leaving now. ❍ This cake's delicious. You ought to try some. ❍ SHOULD ၄။ သင့္သည္။ If he started out at nine, he ought to be here by now. ❍ That ought to be enough food for all of us. ❍ Oughtn't the water to have boiled by now?

Examples

1. ought to /'ↄ:t tǝ; before vowels and finally 'ↄ:t tu/ modal v ( neg ought not to, short form esp Brit oughtn't to /'ↄ:tnt/ ) ၁။ သင့္သည္။ ထိုက္သည္။ Children ought to respect their parents.
2. ‘Ought I to write to say thank you?’ ‘Yes, I think you ought (to). ’
3. You ought to apologize.
4. You ought to have apologized (ie but you didn't).
5. Such things ought not to be allowed.
6. They oughtn't to let their dog run on the road.
7. She ought to have been more tactful. ၂။ သင့္သည္။ ထိုက္သည္။ Children ought to be able to read by the age of 7.
8. There ought to be more buses during the rush hour. ၃။ သင့္သည္။ You ought to improve your French before going to work in Paris.
9. We ought to be leaving now.
10. This cake's delicious. You ought to try some.
11. SHOULD ၄။ သင့္သည္။ If he started out at nine, he ought to be here by now.
12. That ought to be enough food for all of us.
13. Oughtn't the water to have boiled by now?