Professional Documents
Culture Documents
need She needs to go to the She needn’t go to the Need she go to the Needn’t she go to
bank. bank. bank? the bank?
She need not go to Does she need to go Doesn’t she need
the bank. to the bank? to go to the bank?
She doesn’t need to
go to the bank.
used to She used to smoke. She didn’t use to Did she use to Didn’t she use to
smoke. smoke? smoke?
Syntactic Properties of Main Verbs
• cannot be directly negated with not:
I like not action movies
I don’t like action movies
• Aspect
– Simple vs. continuous
– Perfect (vs. non-perfect)
Tense and Aspect
• Aspects of the present tense:
– Present simple: I eat
– Present continuous: I am eating
– Present perfect: I have eaten
– Present perfect continuous: I have been eating