Timeline for Question tags for the modal need
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| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | user1425 | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | Lambie | Nope, you can't get away with that. I merely stated a fact based on how you presented it. I cannot be responsible for your initial mistake, can I? The typo is a separate issue. You can correct all you want but you ignored what I said. You might want to admit it. No, it meant the "need to know" as presented in my example: need to know, have to know, have got to know. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:52 | comment | added | user1425 | @ Lambie the matter is that at first you said "Anyway, the verb "need" is not a modal." which means you didn't mean the need in my sentence but any need. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:50 | comment | added | user1425 | @ Lambie seems like all you want to accomplish is show that someone doesn't know something while you know it. If I didn't know the difference I wouldn't have asked the question and corrected it. This is my right to correct. You want to look smart at the expense of a typo? If you knew that NEED can be modal you would have never said "Anyway, the verb "need" is not a modal." | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:50 | comment | added | Lambie | @user1425 It isn't modal in the way you originally presented which was: need to hurry. Need to hurry, have to hurry, have got to hurry= No modals. You kept saying modal and only NOW changed it to: need hurry. Seems to be some bad faith there. I was clear about what was not modal. I even gave those examples. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | user1425 | @Lambie this is what you said "Anyway, the verb "need" is not a modal" | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:28 | comment | added | Lambie | @rjpond: The OP did not know the difference as the original question was calling to hurry a modal and trying to say what I said was wrong. What I said was correct for: need to hurry. The original formulation. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:24 | comment | added | rjpond | @LifelongLearner Your answer still makes sense. Lambie, "Nobody need to hurry" could have been an error either for "Nobody needs to hurry" (as you assumed) or for the modal "Nobody need hurry" (as was in fact the case, since that's what the OP intended). In any case, the OP has corrected the question since then, so there's no point in continuing to criticise it. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:20 | comment | added | Lambie | I repeat: x needs to hurry. is not semi-modal. But: "Nobody need hurry". is semi-modal, without to. For: need to hurry, the answer from Lifelong Learner is accurate. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 17:12 | comment | added | Lifelong Learner | Some of the comments here and on my answer below don't make sense with the question now changed! Neither of the options presented were options in the original question! The rule for editing is to clarify meaning without changing it and it seems to me this is a similar, but different, question to the original. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 16:56 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2021 at 16:50 | comment | added | BillJ | "Nobody need hurry" is negative, so the choice is between the positive tags "do they?" and "need they?" The rule is that if the anchor verb is an auxiliary, select the same verb, otherwise select "do". Since "need" is an auxiliary here, it follows that the tag should be "need they?" | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:58 | history | edited | user1425 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | user1425 | I don't need to correct my grammar first. If I do it, I won't be asking questions here. If you think need is not a modal then you are welcome to read this collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/need | |
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| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:39 | comment | added | Lambie | You need to correct your grammar first. Anyway, the verb "need" is not a modal. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:37 | history | edited | user1425 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:37 | comment | added | user1425 | I am asking about the modal need. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:36 | comment | added | Lambie | [correction: Nobody needs to hurry]. | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:10 | answer | added | Lifelong Learner | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 25, 2021 at 15:06 | history | asked | user1425 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |