Jackson6612 wrote: Need sometimes behaves like a modal, for example 'She need know', 'She needn't know', or, in more formal English, 'She need not know'. Examples: 1: You needn't worry 2: Buying budget-priced furniture needn't mean

Hi Need is a marginal modal auxiliary, that is, it can behave as if it were a modal (bare inf and without infection), but can be used as a main verb ( to inf +inflection) too. In your sentence, need is used in modal perfect form. She need not have

Thanks Don for your help. I have difficulty finding this ... might ? Past perfect of may 1. I had might (snip more) You can't say anything like those in English. "May" and "might" are auxilliaries (helping verbs or modals)

I was a bit confused myself in the beginning becuase I thought that modals were just can, could; may, might; will, would; must; shall, should. These verbs are the "classical" modals, but every verb that expresses/describes the modus of a full

Tony Mountifield (Email Removed) writes: John Lawler (Email Removed) writes: 3) *He doesn't may/can be home. I wondered if the * was put in anticipating the insertion of a footnote which was then forgotten, explaining that may and can