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Your sentences are not very good English as they contain grammatical mistakes. If I understand you right, you are asking whether need not + infinitive is a subjunctive. No, it isn't. Need in the present tense can be made negative in two ways:1. He need not go there.2. He doesn't need/have to go...

Ahn wrote: Thank for your kind explanation, Goodman. According to your answer, I'd rather use 'deteriorate or evolve' in this context, right? Hi Ahn It’s my pleasure to share with you. I prefer to work the questions with understandable context which I think can help the learners better...

The negative can go both ways in terms of expectations. I think if it's stated as more of a statement: You don't like Tom, do you? without much of an upward inflection, then you are expecting a negative. But if you ask it with a real upward inflection: You're not dating him, are you??, then you...

Thank you to all those who have posted their suggestions to my little imagination game. Some have taken it very seriously thinking they would have to relearn English after the 'changes'. This was meant to be just a game, not for those wo take everything seriously, and of course in this game...

Upon further consideration, I'd like to add the following. It seems to me that inflection (or not) could indicate the use of the question mark rather than the period. Mark's a slob isn't he! (I'm sure you agree with me....not really asking.) Mark's coming tomorrow night, isn't he? (I have...

Your negative sentence is in the past tense, Melanie, where the third person singular inflection does not appear. He doesn't have three cars'-- it is the operator ('do' here) which takes the '-s' inflection.