[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"grammar-exercise-01a0e1ab-dae2-7dc0-9737-837a01a8ced7":3,"grammar-exercise-lesson-01a0e1ab-d5cc-783e-9492-99f1542755f2":106},{"id":4,"grammarPage":5,"title":6,"instructions":7,"seoTitle":8,"seoDescription":9,"displayOrder":10,"type":11,"questions":12,"ogImageUrl":105},"01a0e1ab-dae2-7dc0-9737-837a01a8ced7","\u002Fapi\u002Fgrammar_pages\u002F01a0e1ab-d5cc-783e-9492-99f1542755f2","Had Better: Sort Meanings and Messages","Tap each tile, then tap the column that matches its meaning or message. Place every tile.","Had better: sort advice, time and tone","Practise had better through sorting boards on advice, expectations, time and tone, using messages about meals, journeys, household tasks and work.",3,"word_sort",[13,36,59,82],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"blanks":18,"payload":19},"01a0e1ab-dae2-7ea8-9737-837a01ed21e5","Sort these had better statements into advice to people and strong expectations about things.",0,"With a person as subject, had better can advise an action to avoid a problem. With a thing as subject, it expresses a strong expectation rather than advice that the thing can follow. For example: This new alarm had better be loud enough.",[],{"items":20,"categories":35},[21,24,27,29,31,33],{"text":22,"category":23},"The heating had better work.","Strong expectation about a thing",{"text":25,"category":26},"You'd better dry your wet shoes.","Advice to people",{"text":28,"category":23},"This meal had better be hot.",{"text":30,"category":26},"We'd better wash these plates.",{"text":32,"category":23},"The parcel had better arrive today.",{"text":34,"category":26},"He'd better take a warm coat.",[26,23],{"id":37,"sentenceTemplate":38,"displayOrder":39,"explanation":40,"blanks":41,"payload":42},"01a0e1ab-dae2-7ef8-9737-837a02ca1e74","Sort these messages into advice about an action still possible and regret about an action already completed or missed.",1,"Despite had, had better normally gives advice for now or the future. Should have + past participle can express regret about a completed or missed past action. Here, now and tomorrow point forward, while last night and yesterday identify finished occasions. For example: I should have kept the receipt when I bought the lamp.",[],{"items":43,"categories":58},[44,47,50,52,54,56],{"text":45,"category":46},"I should have rested yesterday.","Regret about the past",{"text":48,"category":49},"We'd better clean the kitchen now.","Advice now or for the future",{"text":51,"category":49},"You'd better post the letter now.",{"text":53,"category":46},"We should have cooked last night.",{"text":55,"category":49},"I'd better visit the bank tomorrow.",{"text":57,"category":46},"I should have called yesterday.",[49,46],{"id":60,"sentenceTemplate":61,"displayOrder":62,"explanation":63,"blanks":64,"payload":65},"01a0e1ab-dae2-7f30-9737-837a03951200","Each message gives strong advice. Sort them by whether the possible problem is stated in the message or left unstated.",2,"Had better links advice to a possible problem. An or-clause can state that problem explicitly, but a message without one is also complete when the situation supplies the reason. For example: Seeing an empty fuel gauge, a driver says, We had better find a petrol station.",[],{"items":66,"categories":81},[67,70,73,75,77,79],{"text":68,"category":69},"I'd better eat or I'll feel ill.","Possible problem stated",{"text":71,"category":72},"We'd better take an umbrella.","Possible problem left unstated",{"text":74,"category":69},"We'd better run or we'll be late.",{"text":76,"category":72},"You'd better keep a spare key.",{"text":78,"category":69},"I'd better stop or I'll fall asleep.",{"text":80,"category":72},"I'd better put on my glasses.",[69,72],{"id":83,"sentenceTemplate":84,"displayOrder":10,"explanation":85,"blanks":86,"payload":87},"01a0e1ab-dae2-7f60-9737-837a046801c7","Sort these messages by their wording: stronger had better advice, softer should advice, or an ordinary polite request.","Had better normally gives stronger situational advice with a possible problem in mind. Should can advise the same action more softly; it is not automatically wrong in a specific situation. Could you asks politely for an action rather than warning someone. For example: Could you hold this box for a moment?",[],{"items":88,"categories":104},[89,92,95,98,100,102],{"text":90,"category":91},"Could you pass me a towel, please?","Polite request: could you",{"text":93,"category":94},"You'd better check the bill.","Stronger advice: had better",{"text":96,"category":97},"You should back up your files.","Softer advice: should",{"text":99,"category":94},"You'd better back up your files.",{"text":101,"category":91},"Could you close the door, please?",{"text":103,"category":97},"You should check the bill.",[94,97,91],"\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_da07f155-7ff9-4722-bf6b-1cb83402754a_hero.webp?v=1790492531",{"title":107,"slug":108,"language":109,"level":110},"Had Better: Advice and Warnings","had-better-advice-and-warnings","en","B1"]