{"id":73194,"date":"2020-03-21T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73194"},"modified":"2020-03-21T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T12:04:00","slug":"using-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/using-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Need not + have + past participle<\/h3>\n<p>If we say that somebody\u00a0<b>need not have done\u00a0<\/b>something, we mean that he or she did it, but it was not necessary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>need not have woken<\/b>\u00a0me up. I don\u2019t have to go to work today.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>needn\u2019t have cooked\u00a0<\/b>so much food. Nobody was hungry.<\/li>\n<li>They<b>\u00a0need not have come\u00a0<\/b>all this way. (= They came all this way, but it was not necessary.)<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0<b>need not have waited\u00a0<\/b>for his approval. (= We waited for his approval, but that was not necessary.)<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>need not have bought\u00a0<\/b>a new car.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<b>need not have paid\u00a0<\/b>for that call.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that\u00a0<b>need not have\u00a0<\/b>does not mean the same as\u00a0<b>did not need to<\/b>. When we say that somebody did not need to do something, we are simply saying that it was not necessary (whether or not it was done).<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>need not have\u00a0<\/b>bought it. (=I bought it, but it was not necessary.)<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>didn&#8217;t need to\u00a0<\/b>buy it. (=It was not necessary for me to buy it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Need + participle<\/h3>\n<p>In British English it is possible to use an<b>\u00a0\u2013ing<\/b>\u00a0form after\u00a0<b>need<\/b>. It means the same as a passive infinitive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your hair\u00a0<b>needs washing<\/b>. (= Your hair needs to be washed.)<\/li>\n<li>The carpet\u00a0<b>needs cleaning<\/b>. (= The carpet needs to be cleaned.)<\/li>\n<li>The roof\u00a0<b>needs repairing<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A structure with\u00a0<b>need + object + present\/past participle\u00a0<\/b>is also possible in some cases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You need your hair cutting\/cut.<\/li>\n<li>You need your car cleaned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need not + have + past participle If we say that somebody\u00a0need not have done\u00a0something, we mean that he or she did it, but it was not necessary. You\u00a0need not have woken\u00a0me up. I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2089,2091,2090,2092],"class_list":["post-73194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-need","tag-need-as-an-auxiliary-verb","tag-need-as-an-ordinary-verb","tag-need-grammar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73195,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73194\/revisions\/73195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}