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crisferpi
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help with modals. Is this rephrasing correct?
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Hello everybody !!
Can you help me qith this sentences?
"Anne finished the project on her own although it wasn �t necessary to do so"
Anne didn �t have to finish the project on her own
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Anne didn�t have had to finish the project on her own.
I think the first one is correct but another teacher said to my pupils that the second one is better.
Any idea????
thanks !!!!!!
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22 Nov 2010
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coyote.chus
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What about "Ann needn �t have finished the project on her own"?
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22 Nov 2010
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crisferpi
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Thanks Chus.
I said to my pupils both of them, the sentence with "needn �t" and the first one. The problem is that the other teacher and I had a different opinion about the sentence with "didn �t have to"
Thanks a lot for your help 
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22 Nov 2010
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crisferpi
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Thanks Chus.
I said to my pupils both of them, the sentence with "needn �t" and the first one. The problem is that the other teacher and I had a different opinion about the sentence with "didn �t have to"
Thanks a lot for your help
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22 Nov 2010
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crisferpi
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I don �t know why my answers appear twic.
Sorry
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22 Nov 2010
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crisferpi
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I don �t know why my answers appear twic.
Sorry
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22 Nov 2010
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magneto
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I think the first one is correct, too. ("Anne didn �t have to finish the project on her own")
The second one is definitely not correct - what sort of tense/ modal is didn �t have had to?
An even better suggestion, since Anne has already finished the project on her own anyway, would be: "Anne needn �t have finished the project on her own", which suggests that it wasn �t necessary for her to do so, but she did anyway.
See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv317.shtml
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22 Nov 2010
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Apodo
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I agree with magneto.
Anne didn �t have to finish the project on her own. is correct.
Anne didn�t have to have finished the project on her own. is not correct.
Anne needn �t have finished the project on her own. is correct.
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22 Nov 2010
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crisferpi
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Why is this sentence wrong:
Anne didn�t have to have finished the project on her own. ????
I need an explanation to tell my colleague
Thanks
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22 Nov 2010
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There �s a mistake in the previous sentences: