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Message   Ardith Hinton    Alexander Koryagin   Women don't like rain   July 2, 2019
 5:20 PM *  

Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

 AH>> [...] you could correctly say "he should not (do so)"
 AH>> or "he ought not to (do so)".

 AK>  I meant something like this:
 AK>  -----Beginning of the citation-----
 AK>  "Instead of which," I said, "in a month's time I take
 AK>  the most important examination of my career."

 AK>  "I should advise you not to." (Ch. Snow)
 AK>  ----- The end of the citation -----

 AK>  I.e. the main idea (I take the most important
 AK>  examination) was replaced by "to"


            Supplementing Anton's comments WRT the issue... you can't replace a
 verb with a preposition.  In the above example Snow used the infinitive form
of the verb "(to) take" the second time, anticipating that the reader would
recall & mentally add "take" etc. in accordance with the original statement. 
When you tried to do the same, your choice of "should" introduced an added
complication: although native speakers use "to" with "ought" they don't use it
with "should". You can, however, advise a person to do or not to do something.

            Where I come from an infinitive is still an infinitive even if part
 of it has been left out.  The trick is in knowing which part to leave out. 
;-)




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