Giving advice or making a suggestion in English

Giving advice or making a suggestion in English

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SHOULD & WOULD

These two modal verbs are used to give advices or suggestions.

Let's see how to use them.

SHOULD ( for present)

• Subject + Should + Base Verb

• Used to give advice or suggestion in the presnt

• For example- You should not eat junk food and you should wake up early.

SHOULD ( for past)

• Should + Have + Past Participle

• Should is used for advice in the past.

• For example- You should have studied more for your exams. ( contracted form- should've)

WOULD ( for hypothetical situations)

• expressing desire, polite requests and questions, opinion or hope, wish and regret.

• Wish/Desire- I'd love to live here.

• Polite request- Would you open the door, please? 

• Opinion- I would have to agree.

WOULD ( for past)

• Would as a past tense of will or going to is common in reported speech:

• She said that she would come to my house.. ("I will come to your house")

• Why didn't you charge your phone? I told you it would die soon. ( "Your phone is going to die")