Дипломная работа: Modal verbs

E.g. You shouldn’t be sitting in home. Move out of it into the garden.

You shouldn’t feel so unhappy over such trifles.

Should may be combined with the Perfect Infinitive. In this case the meaning of the combination depends on whether the sentence is affirmative or negative. In an affirmative sentence should + Perfect Infinitive indicates that a desirable action was not carried out.

E.g. He looks very ill. He should have stayed at home.

He should have told me about it himself.

In a negative sentence should + Perfect Infinitive serves to show that an undesirable action was carried out.

E.g. Oh, John, you shouldn’t have done as you did.

They shouldn’t have concealed it from us.

2) supposition implying strong probability ,

E.g. The film should be very good as it is starring first-class actors.

The use of should in this case does not seem to be very common as this meaning is usually rendered by must .

In addition to the above mentioned cases showing the independent use of should this verb occurs in certain object clauses where it depends on the lexical character of the predicate verb in the principal clause and in adverbial clauses of condition, purpose and concession.

E.g. I suggest hat you should stay here as if nothing had happened.

“It’s important,” I broke out, “that the people should know what we’ve just heard.”

She was terrified lest they should goon talking about her.

Should may have a peculiar function - it may be used for emotional coloring. In this function it may be called the emotional should. The use of the emotional should is structurally dependent.

It is found in the following cases:

1) In special emphatic constructions where a simple predicate is not used:

a) in rhetorical questions beginning with why,

E.g. Why should I do it? (С какой стати я буду это делать?)

Why shouldn't you invite him? (Почему бы Вам его не пригласить?)

b) in object clauses beginning with why ,

E.g. I don’t know why he should want to see him (Я не знаю зачем он ему нужен)

I don’t see why we shouldn’t make friends.

c) in attributive clauses beginning with why after the noun reason ,

E.g. There is no reason why they shouldn’t get on very well together (Нет причины почему бы им не ладить дpуг с другом).

d) in constructions of the following kind,

E.g. The door opened and who should come in but Tom (Дверь открылась, и, кто бы Вы думали, вошёл? Никто иной, как Том)

As I was crossing the street, whom should I meet but Aunt Ann.