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Bookmark or Share- "need to do" vs "need do" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeSearching among the first 50 instances of "need take" in Google books before 1900, aside from the construction "had need take" (which isn't used nowadays), I only find one instance of need take that isn't negative in some way: "I should be obliged to you if you'll leave a Line or Two with Directions how to take the Things, and how long I need ...
- "Need not be" vs. "Need not to be" - English Language & Usage Stack ...That's because need is a Semi-Modal auxiliary verb, like dare, and acts like a modal auxiliary (i.e, no to on infinitive complements) in negative environments. Notice that The hammer needs to be large is grammatical, but not *The hammer need be large; that's the way it behaves normally, without a negative around. –
- grammaticality - Is "one needs only" or "one need only" correct ...I found both "need" and "needs" have many search results in terms of the phrase "one need/needs only". For example: 1.Should one have any doubts about this proposition, one need only look to the perplexing case of Army Specialist Michael New. 2.But one needs only look at Ronsard to realise how much Catullus influenced him.
- "I need to" vs "I will need to" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeI need to take a shower is the correct variant in the situation you describe. The present tense is used because the need exists in the present. In the following examples the future tense is used because the need will not exist until some time in the future: If I decide to go out after all, I will need to take a shower.
- “There need to be” need or needs? - English Language & Usage Stack ...There need to be other reactions. Since "there" is an adverb, it cannot be the subject of a sentence. Another way of writing the same sentence is: Other reactions need to be there. In this case it is clear that "other reactions" is the subject of the sentence. It is plural, and therefore only "need to" agrees with it.
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