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Latest post Tue, Jan 1 2008 5:12 AM by Avangi. 1 replies.
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Futurehuman11  +  459009 Tue, 01 Jan 08 02:32 AM

Is there a difference between the two sentences below?  Does the use of 'had' have to be there for the sentence to be syntaxically correct? 

You had better do your homework.

You better do your homework.
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Avangi  +  459039 Tue, 01 Jan 08 05:12 AM

Hi F11,

I'd say yes and yes. I believe the shortened version is colloquial  -   certainly not formal.  A compromise would be the contraction, You'd better do your homework.

Is syntaxically a word?  I was thinking syntactically.   I'd better look it up!

Regards,  - A.

Edit.  Ha!  I was right!  syntactically
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