JBP-2/Lesson 6, Making Strong Suggestions

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Here's an additional note of "Making Strong Suggestions".

ほうがいいです - "should/should not do・・・" is a sentence-final expression that you can use to give advice.

 

When you suggest an activity with ほうがいいです, you are giving very specific piece of advice; namely, that it is advisable to do it, and if one does not follow the advice, there would be a danger, problems or some critical situations.

ほうがいいです is peculiar in that it follows different tense forms, depending on whether the advice given is in the affirmative or the negative.

 

When the advice is in the affirmative, ほうがいいです generally follows the past tense short form as the ta-form of a verb.

 

When the advise is in the negative, however, the verb is in the present tense as the nai-form.

 

 

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