English · Ethics in Business
Giving advice — should / ought to / had better / if I were you
Should, ought to, had better, if I were you: one warning growing stronger with each step
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Giving advice: should/ought to/had better/if I were you
The method
- Match the modal to its force: should < ought to ≈ had better < if I were you (more personal)
The common mistakes
- had better + to (wrong: had better to go)
From the lesson
Ali just discovered that a shipment of counterfeit spare parts is about to go out labeled as genuine. He turns to a coworker and asks, "What do I do?"
The vocabulary
- had better (من الأفضل أن)
- if I were you (لو كنت مكانك)
What is not on the syllabus
- Expressing regret/complaint (previous concept)