about "had better"
When you conjecture something, you can use "may/might".
For example,
You can do it.
You may be able to do it. (conjecture)
How can you say conjecture about "had better"?
You had better go now.
You may had(?) better go now. (conjecture)
Thank all of you who answered.
I can say it like this?
"You may be better to go now." (conjecture)
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Answers · 5
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"When you conjecture something, you can use "may/might"." Well, that's the problem right there. It's basically true, but you can also use other modals to conjecture. Also, because they are modals, this means only the bare infinitive verb (without "to", and without conjugation) may follow. So "may had" is impossible.
Basically, you have to either reword "had better", or not use may/might. Sean and Gena have given some good examples; I'll add "(Maybe) you ought to go now" to the list.
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Maybe you should go now.
You had better go now. These mean the same thing.
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'Had better' is used when there will be some negative outcome as a result of not doing something.
"We had better leave now, or we will miss the start of the film."
You can't add may/might to this phrase. If you want to say that there MIGHT be some negative outcome as a result of not doing something you can use maybe + had better
"Maybe we had better go now, or we might miss the start of the film."
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Just take out the "had" completely. [You better go now.] It is incorrect English to say [You had better go now.] but a lot of English speakers say it anyway usually when you have an attitude and your trying to be nice but really, your mad...
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"You might want to go now."
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