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The English modal verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility, obligation, etc.). They can be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participle or infinitive forms) and by their neutralization (that they do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular). The principal English modal verbs are can, could, may, might, shall, should, will, would, and must. Certain other verbs are sometimes classed as modals; these include ought, had better, and (in certain uses) dare and need. Verbs which share only some of the characteristics of the principal modals are sometimes called "quasi-modals", "semi-modals", or "pseudo-modals".
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ought to in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ought to in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of ought to in a Sentence
I think many of these policy discussions about privacy have come from smart people sitting in a room and what they think ethically and how people ought to be protected, but we don’t often go out and ask individuals how they want it to be used.
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel:
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Everybody ought to celebrate it, Republican or Democrat alike, it’s a breakthrough, and I think that whether you’re voting for Trump or you’re voting for her or whoever, you ought to take pride.
Nothing is more becoming a man than silence. It is not the preaching but the practice which ought to be considered as the more important. A profusion of words is sure to lead to error.
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