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I was reading an English Grammar text,when I found the following sentence
"Jogging need not ................... expensive"
a)cast c)be
b) pay d)spend
My questions are :
jogging 
oesn't it go with a third person of the verb?
"need not be expensive": shouldn't it be needs not to be expensive?
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g. "Jogging needs to be included in your exercise regime". " is a different construction in which "need" behaves as a modal verb and so does not inflect.
- g.
- "Jogging needs to be included in your exercise regime".
- " is a different construction in which "need" behaves as a modal verb and so does not inflect.
- This modal "need" is mostly used in negative sentences (or sentences with negative intent), or sometimes in questions.
- In modern English it is rarely used in affirmative sentences.
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"jogging" normally takes a singular verb, e.g. "Jogging needs to be included in your exercise regime". However, "need not / needn't + bare inf." is a different construction in which "need" behaves as a modal verb and so does not inflect. This modal "need" is mostly used in negative sentences (or sentences with negative intent), or sometimes in questions. In modern English it is rarely u
0Instructor1955Jogging need not ................... expensive.
Using the non-modal version of "need", it's
Jogging doesn't need to be expensive.
Using the modal version of "need", it's
Jogging need not be expensive.
(Recall that modal verbs don't have a form that ends in "s".)
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