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Forum: English Questions Apr 24th, 2007, 09:32 am
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Posted By mesmark
Re: be supposed to

I think HUE summarized or rather Swan summarized what I was thinking.

I use it (in this instance) to mean 'what I expect to happen,' like 'should.'
Forum: English Questions Apr 12th, 2007, 06:43 am
Replies: 5
Views: 7,393
Posted By mesmark
Re: be supposed to

Hmm. I wonder if that's a British-American difference.

As a pharmacist I always said, "You are supposed to take this twice a day." to mean that's what you have to do or what you were told to do.

I...
Forum: English Questions Apr 10th, 2007, 07:34 am
Replies: 5
Views: 7,393
Posted By mesmark
be supposed to

I had to explain this at the nursing college yesterday and I wasn't quite prepared for the question.

In the dialogue:
Nurse: She's supposed to take this three times a day.

The students have really...
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