Should

Definition

should /ʃǝd; strong form ʃƱd/ modal v ( neg should not ; short form shouldn't /'ʃƱdnt/) ၁။ သင့္သည္။ You shouldn't drink and drive. ❍ We should have checked the time before we left. ❍ I shouldn't have trusted him so readily. ၂။ သင့္သည္။ ေကာင္းတယ္။ Since you're so unhappy there, you should look for another job. ❍ Should I phone him and apologize? ❍ You really should go to India, it's a fantastic place. ❍ I should (ie I think you should) wait a bit longer before making a decision. ❍ ( ironic ) ‘She doesn't think she'll get a job. ’‘She should worry, with all her qualifications. ’ ၃။ ( Brit ) (ယဥ္ေက်းဖြယ္ရာ ေမတၱာ ရပ္သည့္ စကား)။ ––…ေနာ္။ I should like to phone my lawyer. ❍ We should be grateful for your help. ၄။ (အလားအလာကို ခန္႔မွန္းရာ၌ သံုးေသာစကား)။ (ျဖစ္)ေလာက္ပါသည္၊ ေကာင္းပါရဲ႕။ We should arrive before dark. ❍ The roads should be less crowded today. ❍ I should have finished the book by Friday. ၅။ (ေမွ်ာ္လင့္သည့္အတိုင္း မျဖစ္ သည္ကိုျပေသာ စကား)။ သင့္သည္။ …ဖို႔ေကာင္းတယ္။ He should be happy, considering how successful he is. ❍ It should be snowing now according to the weather forecast. ❍ The bus should have arrived ten minutes ago. ၆။ ( Brit fml ) (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာျဖစ္ခဲ့ေသာ္ အက်ဳိးဆက္ မည္သို႔ရိွမည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပ သည့္စကား)။ ေတာ့…မွာပဲ။ If I was asked to work on Sundays I should resign. Compare WOULD ၂ ၇။ ခဲ့လွ်င္။ ခဲ့ေသာ္။ If you should change your mind, do let me know. ❍ Should anyone phone (ie If anyone phones), please tell them I'm busy. ❍ In case you should need any help, here's my number. ၈။ သင့္မည္နည္း။ ေကာင္း မလဲ။ He asked me what time he should come. (ie He asked:‘What time shall I come?’) I said (that) I should be glad to help. ၉။ ( Brit ) သင့္ေၾကာင္း။ I suggest that you should reconsider your position. ❍ She recommended that I should take some time off. ❍ He insisted that I should leave immediately. ၁၀။ သင့္သည္ဟု။ ရေကာင္းလား ဟု။ I'm anxious that we should allow plenty of time. ❍ I find it quite astonishing that he should be so rude to you. ၁၁။ … လိမ့္မည္ထင္သည္။ I should imagine it will take about three hours. ❍ I should say she's over forty. ❍ ‘Is this enough food for everyone?’‘I should think so. ’ ❍ ‘Will it matter?’‘I shouldn't think so. ’Compare WOULD ၈ ၁၂။ (က) …မွာလဲ။ How should I know where you've left your bag? (ခ) …မွာလဲ။ Why should I help him? He's never done anything for me. (ဂ) လက္စသတ္ေတာ့။ လားလား။ I got on the bus and who should be sitting in front of me but my ex-wife! ၁၃။ …ေစခ်င္သည္။ … ဖို႔ေကာင္းတယ္။ You should see him when he first gets up in the morning! ❍ You should have seen her face when she found out! ၁၄။ …တာပဲ။ ‘I know it's expensive but it will last for years. ’‘I should hope so (too)!’ ❍ ‘Nobody will oppose it. ’‘I should think not!’

Examples

1. Parents should spend as much time with their children as possible.
2. It’s an amazing book – you should read it.
3. You shouldn’t drive so fast.
4. What should I do? Should I look for another job?
5. What should be taught in our schools?
6. There should be a law against spreading false rumours.
7. They should be ashamed of themselves.
8. There should be a comma after ‘Yours sincerely’.
9. The total should come to £728.50.
10. There should be a knife in the drawer.
11. There’ll be lots of games
12. so it should be fun.
13. Sheila’s a brilliant student – she should get a first class degree.
14. [should have (done something)] : They should have got home by now.
15. That was disappointing – we should have won that game easily.
16. Should you need help
17. do not hesitate to call me.
18. If anything should happen to me
19. please give this letter to my wife.
20. It is essential that we should protect the environment.
21. Curtiz was determined that Ingrid should star in the new film.
22. It’s hardly surprising that people should be suspicious of politicians’ promises.
23. How sad that she should have no one to comfort her.
24. Claudia was shocked that anyone should believe such a scandalous story.
25. It’s odd you should mention Ben – I was just thinking about him.
26. I should be grateful for a prompt reply.
27. [I should like] : I should like to introduce our guest speaker.
28. I should like to see you alone for a moment.
29. I should go mad if I had to spend any longer in this place.
30. If there was a problem
31. I should know exactly what to do.
32. ‘Will you come to London?’ ‘I should love to
33. but I can’t leave Emily here on her own.’
34. If we had stayed any longer
35. we should have missed our train.
36. I said that I should be happy to cooperate with the investigation.
37. We realized that we should have to pay a large sum to the lawyers.
38. He used a false name so that no one should discover his secret.
39. The committee recommended that the chief executive should be dismissed.
40. Our orders were that we should advance towards San Pedro.