Level 7 Chapter 3 - Obligation and non obligation - Part 2
Quiz
select the answer from the choices given
NEGATIVES OF NEED, MUST AND TO HAVE TO
NEEDN'T (do something) means the same as "don't have to do something."
NEEDN'T HAVE (done something): something that was unnecessary was done.
"You needn't have left a tip; service is included."
DIDN'T NEED used with a noun or a verb means it wasn't necessary. It
usually (but not always) implies I didn't have the object or do the
action.
"I didn't need to buy a car so I didn't." (or "but I did.")
MUST & HAVE TO mean nearly the same in the affirmative, different
things in the negative:
MUSTN'T means "It's forbidden."
"You mustn't smoke in here; there's a "no smoking" sign."
DON'T HAVE TO is permissive. "You can if you want to."
"Saturdays, I don't have to work."(Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.)
Note: MUST used in the past can only be used for an inference.
"I see your umbrella's wet. You must have been out in the rain."
John didn't come. He ________________ about the meeting.
- didn't need to know
- didn't have to know
- mustn't have known
- needn't have known
Thanks a lot for re-typing my speech, but you ________________ to all that trouble.
- hadn't had to go
- needn't have gone
- mustn't have gone
You ___________ a car if you've got a bicycle.
- didn't need
- don't have
- don't need
- needn't
You _____________ call me by my surname. "Pete" will do.
- don't need
- don't have to
- mustn't
- don't have
Extra chairs ! Thanks, but you ________________. We've got plenty.
- wouldn't need to bother
- mustn't have bothered
- needn't have bothered
- didn't bother
Why ________________ an identity card in England?
- don't you have to
- needn't you
- mustn't you have
- don't you need
Joe had enough money so he ____________ to take out a loan.
- needn't have
- didn't need
- needn't
- mustn't
I ____________ to rent a car as I had my bicycle.
- didn't need
- needn't have
- mustn't have
- mustn't
Peter had the money so he ____________ a loan to buy his house.
- mustn't have
- needn't have
- needn't
- didn't need
You _____________ eat with your left hand in Arab countries; It's impolite;
- don't have to
- mustn't
- don't need to
- needn't
The door's open ! The last person out yesterday _____________ it.
- didn't have to lock
- mustn't have locked
- needn't have locked
- didn't need to lock
You __________ to have fax machines serviced, which is nice.
- don't have
- needn't have
- needn't
- mustn't
There was a hotel nearby. If we'd known we wouldn't ______________ drive half the night before we found one.
- have needed
- have to
- have had to
- needed
I needn't _______________ French after all. Everyone here speaks English.
- to learn
- have to learn
- have learned
- learned
Why did you say I ____________ make extra copies? Now we've run out.
- mustn't
- needn't have
- needn't
- didn't have