need as an auxiliary verb

Need As An Ordinary Verb And An Auxiliary Verb

Need is used both as an ordinary verb and as an auxiliary verb. As an ordinary verb As an ordinary verb need is used in the sense of ‘require’. It has the usual forms needs and needed. Ordinary need is followed by an infinitive with to. One needs to be punctual. Everybody needs to be loved. He needed some more time to decide the question. …

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Using Need

Need not + have + past participle If we say that somebody need not have done something, we mean that he or she did it, but it was not necessary. You need not have woken me up. I don’t have to go to work today. I needn’t have cooked so much food. Nobody was hungry. They need not have come all this way. …

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