See ought on Wiktionary
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"form": "ought",
"tags": [
"present"
]
},
{
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"past"
]
},
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"form": "oughtn't",
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}
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"lang": "English",
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"categories": [],
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{
"text": "I think perhaps we ought to help her."
},
{
"text": "It's dangerous and there ought not to be any children close by."
},
{
"text": "We really ought to go a bit early because of the snow."
},
{
"text": "What time ought the school to open?"
},
{
"text": "I suppose I ought to write her an e-mail."
}
],
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"If you ought to do something, doing it is better than not doing it."
],
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"word": "should"
},
{
"word": "must"
},
{
"word": "had better"
}
]
},
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"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He ought to be here by now."
},
{
"text": "You ought to be able to finish that in an hour."
}
],
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"If something ought to be true, you have reason to believe it, but you don't know, or it is not true."
],
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"ipa": "/ɔːt/",
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},
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},
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"text": "I think perhaps we ought to help her."
},
{
"text": "It's dangerous and there ought not to be any children close by."
},
{
"text": "We really ought to go a bit early because of the snow."
},
{
"text": "What time ought the school to open?"
},
{
"text": "I suppose I ought to write her an e-mail."
}
],
"glosses": [
"If you ought to do something, doing it is better than not doing it."
],
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"modal"
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"word": "should"
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"word": "must"
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"word": "had better"
}
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],
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{
"text": "He ought to be here by now."
},
{
"text": "You ought to be able to finish that in an hour."
}
],
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],
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}
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