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Old 19-Feb-2006, 15:02
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Dear teachers,

Please read the following sentence:

Then you'd better learn---hadn't you?

As far as I know "you'd " is the short form of "you had/would". My question is: Can I replace "hadn't you" in the above sentence with " wouldn't you"?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you in advance.

Jiang
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No, you can't- it's 'had better'.
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Oh, I see.

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No, you can't- it's 'had better'.
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