had better

[navi tasan]

Are these sentences correct:

1-He had better have cleaned the table already.
(The table has to have been cleaned by now).


2-Yesterday he told me I had better stay in.

[flowersa]

(Not a teacher)

Hi Navi, sentence 2 seems to me correct-

2-Yesterday he told me I had better stay in

About the rest I'm not sure

Are these sentences correct:

1-He had better have cleaned the table already.
(The table has to have been cleaned by now).


2-Yesterday he told me I had better stay in.

[5jj]

Both sentences are acceptable, though I would use 'by now' rather than 'already' in the first.

[Rover_KE]

I'd say 'He'd better have cleaned the table by now'.

[5jj]

I'd say 'He'd better have cleaned the table by now'.

So would I. I should have noticed that.