Modal Verb: Suggestions and advice

A6. Suggestions and advice: We use ‘should’ to make suggestions and give advice. (e.g. You should send an email. We should go by train.)
a. We use ‘could’ to make suggestions. (e.g. We could meet at the weekend. You could eat out tonight.)
b. We use ‘conditionals’ to give advice. (e.g. Dan will help you if you ask him.)
c. Past tenses are more polite. (e.g. Dan would help you if you asked him.)

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Idiom 365

He Lost His Head: to lose control, or angry and overcome by emotions
Example: My boss usually stays quite calm in meetings but he just lost his head in this time.

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