Sentences with ought
ought
O o - Mark, you've got a good wife. You ought to take care of her.
- You don't have to be alone with him and I don't think you ought to be.
- It is suggested that multipolarity means we ought to distance.
- A movie called Space Chimps ought to be cheap, crude and silly, and this computer-animated lark delivers on all fronts.
- 'This ought to be fun,' he told Alex, eyes gleaming.
- By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
- India has lots of power and money and ought to use it judiciously.
- He does not believe parents should have to use the technology, but says if there are no significant risks or costs, it ought to be employed.
- He ought to have reached the house some time ago.
- Basically the system ought to have worked.
- It is life-changing and ought not to be treated as a minor surgical procedure.
- Ought to is a phrasal modal verb. It is used with the base form of a verb. The negative form of ought to is ought not to, which is sometimes shortened to oughtn't to in spoken English.
- I realize I ought to have told you about it.
- I really ought to be getting back now.
- You ought to pay your dues
- You ought to be more careful with your money
- You ought to finish this work by Friday
- You ought to come next week
- You ought to eat more
- It ought to be over soon