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He's a guy that can see the future and thinks Caesar ought to be warned about his imminent death.
'Ought to be' is present tense. 'Ought to have been' is past tense.
You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
Julius Caesar is a much more famous historical figure than Brutus. And, although Brutus is the play's main character, it centres around the murder of Caesar, both the planning of it and the consequences of it. It is not as bizarrely misnamed as The Merchant of Venice, which one imagines ought to be either The Moneylender of Venice or The Heiress of Belmont.
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He's a guy that can see the future and thinks Caesar ought to be warned about his imminent death.
The past tense of ought is ought.
Ought is already acceptable in past tense. 'Ought to be' is present tense, while 'Ought to have been' or 'Ought to have' is past tense.
A sentence with the word ought in it is: "I ought to be a superstar someday!"
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What does Halley's Comet mean for the future? Nothing special; the comet will return to the inner solar system in 2061, and ought to be a pretty special view. But in the grand scheme of things, it has no special significance.
The antonym of "ought" in the sense of should is "shouldn't" or "ought not:""Jack ought to have joined in the fun.""No, he shouldn't have joined in if it wasn't fun for him."
"You ought to be doing your homework."