How would you interpret this sentence? How would you interpret this sentence ‘Hadn’t you ought to put your hat on even under the canvas at noon’? I would think it is more usual to say ‘Oughtn’t you to put your hat on…’. What do you think? Thank you. The excerpt is taken from the short story ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ written by Ernest Hemingway. The excerpt: Wilson looked over at her without smiling and now she smiled at him. “It’s been a very strange day,” she said. “Hadn’t you ought to put your hat on even under the canvas at noon? You told me that, you know.” “Might put it on,” said Wilson. “You know you have a very red face, Mr. Wilson,” she told him and smiled again.