Thank you very much for helping me! I forgot to include these last sentences.
Can you explain me the difference between "Ought to" and "should". For example, I know I ought not to hurt his feelings (why ought to and not should?)
1) The teacher caught Mike cheating during his maths text. He accused him of teaching but Mike lied to him pretending not to (have cheated).
2) The teacher got furious (with him) and wrote him a reprimand in the class register. Mike went out of the classroom without asking the teacher for permission.
3)The teacher had him suspended (?) for two weeks.
4)She was coming back from school on the bus. While she was getting off, a man with a baseball cap pushed past her (I need a synonym). She remembers him banging into her. When she was outside (off the bus?) she realized she had been mugged (?).
5)She went to the police and reported the (snatching, mugging?) .
6) When she got home, she discovered they had been burgled. The burglars had taken her mum’s jewellery, her dad’s watch and her MP3 player. About a week later she went into the cafè and saw a man in a baseball cap who was listening to her MP3 player and was wearing her dad’s watch.
7) Somebody stole Mike’s mobile phone at school. His mum told him he should phone his mobile phone company. He did it and they asked him if he knew his IMEI (what is it?) number.
8)Unfortunately he didn’t. If he had known it, they would have blocked his phone so that nobody could have used it.
9) He regrets not having written it down. Next time he buys a new phone, he is going to write down his IMEI number which is underneath the battery.
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http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/auxiliary.htm#shall
Read the specifics in the first purple chart.
1) The teacher caught Mike cheating during his maths text. He accused him of cheating, but Mike lied to him pretending not to have cheated.
2) The teacher became angry and wrote him a reprimand in the class register. Mike went out of the classroom without asking the teacher for permission.
3)The teacher had him suspended for two weeks.
4)She was coming back from school on the bus. While she was getting off, a man with a baseball cap shoved her aside. She remembers him banging into her. When she was off the bus, she realized she had been mugged.
5)She went to the police and reported the purse-snatching.
6) When she got home, she discovered they had been burgled. The burglars had taken her mum’s jewelery, her dad’s watch, and her MP3 player. About a week later, she went into the cafè and saw a man in a baseball cap who was listening to her MP3 player and wearing her dad’s watch.
7) Somebody stole Mike’s mobile phone at school. His mum told him he should phone his mobile phone company. He did it and they asked him if he knew his IMEI number.
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-the-IMEI-Number-on-a-Mobile-Phone
8)Unfortunately he didn’t. If he had known it, they would have blocked his phone so that nobody else could have used it.
9) He regrets not having written it down. Next time he buys a new phone, he is going to write down his IMEI number, which is underneath the battery.
7) International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI
ought to = used to indicate obligation
should = past tense of "shall" and also used to indicate obligation
(personally, I always felt "should" had more obligation connected to it!)
Sra