transformation

[spongie]

- Fancy you and I having the same surname!
=> now I ought to create a sentence that carries the same meaning as the one below. The sentence have to contain the word - should.

I wrote: It's odd .....you and I should have..... the same surname! (that was the answer in the book)

I don't understand it. Why do I have to use construction "should have" when in the first sentence there is "having". Is it possible to explain it?

 

[5jj]

'Fancy' is often followed by an -ing form. 'Its odd (that)' is not. There is no reason as such, any more than there is a reason for 'enjoy' being followed by an -ing form and 'want' by a to- infinitive.

 

[spongie]

Well, I had already known that.

But can I also say "It's odd you and I ought to have the same surname!"?

 

[5jj]

Well, I had already known that.

But can I also say "It's odd you and I ought to have the same surname!"?

No

 

[spongie]

Ok ....