u/SicolasFlamel
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How to use need as a model verb？
It should be modal verb in the title.🤦🏻♀️
Recently, I found it difficult to persuade my students about the grammar rules of "need".
I taught them rules:
1.in affirmative sentences, use "need to do";
2.in negative sentences, use modal verb need, "needn't do ";(as the star war comment, 'You needn't worry', 'you needn't hurry.' appear quite often in these exercises.)
So I really want to know how native speakers use it?
Attached one mistake question of my student's.
"You need keep your voice down in the library." is a wrong sentence due to the standard answer, but is that so in real life?
Thanks for your replies, guys. I really appreciate it.☺️
u/SicolasFlamel — 1 day ago
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There are Oxford Discover, THINK, Reading Explore, English in Mind, Side by Side...
It's so hard for a 1 on 1 teacher to prepare all the systems.
And I am going to have a trial lesson for a grade 2 student. She has been taught u4 listening of THINK2.
But I just find the materials are a little bit complex for her. Her mother expected her to take the PET test.
u/SicolasFlamel — 18 days ago
I know there are phrases of "prefer"，like:
1） prefer to do
2）prefer doing a to doing b
3）prefer to do rather than do,
But when I was doing an exercise，its text says :
（person1）- Are you leaving now?
（person2）- Unless you would prefor me to stay here. options：
a. to stay
b. will stay
c. that I will stay
d. staying
I think c） and d）also make sense. Is there someone who can help me understand it?
Or give me some other natural expressions related to the situation， thanks.
Maybe, I am thinking about to describe the （person2）'s sentence with "Would you like me to stay here？".
Do you really use 'prefer' here?
u/SicolasFlamel — 22 days ago