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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Modal and auxiliary verb both. Help please.

Sentence: Education needs not be in English.

Question: Here "need" should be pluralized or not?

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In your sentence, need is functioning as a modal. Modals do not have a third person singular -s ending. Had need been a lexical verb, the sentence would have been, "Education doesn't need to be in English".
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