Need Not


Modals II - Concepts
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Concept Explanation
 

Need Not

Use of 'Need' : As a model auxiliary verb in negative terms, it indicates absence of obligation. It expresses the skeaker's authority or advice and is used for the present and the future. For example :

You needn't type this letter.   (The speaker is the authority; could be his boss.)

1.  (A)  As modal, the forms of  'need' are 'needn't' or 'need' and is used in negative and interrogative for all persons in Present and Future tenses. 'Need' in such construction takes a base infinitive, e.g.

  • (a)  He  need not talk to her.
  • (b)  Need he talk to her ?
  • (B)  'Need' is sometimes used in formal English with hardly/scarcely or only. For example :

    I need hardly say how pleased we are to welcome Mr Narendra Modi here.    (I needn't say how pleased we are to welcome Mr Narendra Modi here.)

    (C)  As already stated, 'need not' expresses the speaker's authority or advice. For example : You needn't remind me agin. Just set the alarm on.

    2.  The use of 'needn't' in Perfect tense denotes in unnecessary action which was nevertheless performed. For example :

    He needn't have written such a detailed essay.  (The essay was to be written in 300 words only.)

    3.  'Needn't', In direct speech, can be reported unchanged in indirect speech. For example :   You needn't pay till the 30th', she says/said.

    4.  'Need', when used as ordinary verb in negative sentence, takes auxililary 'do'. 'Need', conjugated with will.shall, do/does/did etc, takes the full infinitive. It sometimes occurs in affirmative also. e.g.

  • (a)  I do not need to write him anything.
  • (b)  He won't need to attend the court.
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