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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3D - Past modals for the textbook Solutions Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Tim Falla and Paul A. Davies from Oxford University Press

Question

Complete the sentences with needn’t have or didn’t need to and the verb in brackets. In which sentences are both modals possible?

Answer

  1. didn't need to get
  2. didn't need to take / needn't have taken
  3. didn't need to catch
  4. didn't need to buy / needn't have bought
  5. needn't have worried
  6. needn't have walked / didn't need to walk