modal verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't you think you ought to eat before you go?
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Maybe we ought to call the doctor.
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The berries ought to be ripe by now.
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Tricking old people like that ought to be illegal.
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We ought to be able to find someone to do the job pretty quickly.
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You ought to email or call her and say you're sorry.
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You really ought to apologize to her, you know.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I believe women ought to be ordained to the priesthood.
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If there is not tension at the Times around this issue, there ought to be.
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In the genre terms, that ought to have made him unassailable.
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She ought to have recognized Harry, that woollen hat, the jacket.
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They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom.
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Tom Ripley ought to write the letter, he thought.
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You ought to be proud, Herb.