在口语中常省略成’d better或better。如:
你最好小心点。
正:Youhad better be careful.
正:You’d better be careful.
正:Better be careful.
注意否定式、疑问式及其回答。如:
You’d better not go there. 你最好不要去那里。
He’d better go with us, hadn’t he? 他最好同我们一块去,对吗?
What had we better do? 我们最好做什么?
Had we better not go? 我们不去好不好?
比较:Hadn’t we better go? 我们去不是更好吗?
可接进行式、被动式或完成式。如:
I’d better be going now. 现在我得走了。(心情近切)
She’d better be met by him. 最好他去接她。
You’d better have done that. 你要是把那件事办了就好了。
注意:1. 此结构中的 had 永远不可改为 have 或 has;2. 对上级或长辈不宜用此结构。