Hi fellas .... how're you doin?
last night I was looking up my dictionary for fun and luckily I found a word ... the world was defined sth like this :
Gad : to visit different places & have fun esp when u should be doing sth else ......
Although the meaning is clear for me my question is what does the red part mean ?
I googled it & understood that we can use the other modal verbs like might, could and so on by that ..am i right ?
I'm about to ask you what does it mean ? when we use it ? and every things that u consider it can be useful as to this matter ...
thank you & best wishes
Hi , fine .. l
The following model is used for this "should be doing" :
Modal auxiliary verb + be + gerund (verb+ -ing )l
In "Gad definition" example, it is used to show that someone had to do something but what he/she is doing now is not what he/she should be doing right now .
For example, you say:
I'm surfing the net. Though, I should be studying for my exams.
It means that you are not doing what you should be doing right now.
You can use other modal verbs as well.
For instance, you can use "could"l
I could be doing something better.
Here, you could say:
I could do something better.
The difference between them is clear. In the first sentence, you are talking about now. You mean that what you're doing now could be replaced by some other "thing" which in your idea, is better. But in the second one, you regret because you are talking about something you've already done and it's finished now that you're talking about it. So, in the first sentence, you realize that you could be doing something better that what you are doing now and you may change it but in the second one you can't do anything but regret.l
در جمله زیر میشه کلمه Where رو از جمله حذف کرد ؟
I want to go to the country where I was born in
بله می تونید حذفش کنید. چون the country خودش مکان هست، where هم حتی اگه نیاد شما منظور رو می رسونید .. ولی مثلاً اگه به country اشاره نکنین:
I'm going back to where I was born in.
اینجا دیگه نمی تونید where رو حذف کنید، چرا که معنی جمله عوض و به عبارتی ناقص میشه .. هر وقت خواستید چنین کلماتی رو حذف کنید و شک داشتید یه توجه کوچیک به معنی جمله کارتون رو راه میندازه .. اینکه اگه حذفش کنم همون معنی رو میده یا نه ..