01-Apr-2006, 11:57
|
| Editor, UsingEnglish.com | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Country: UK
Posts: 25,395
Current Location: Phnom Penh First Language: English Member Type: English Teacher Thanks: 6
Thanked 393 Times in 353 Posts
| |
 Re: "need" and "dare" -- as main verbs or modals?
According to the British National Corpus:
1 N'T NEED 2500
2 NOT NEED 1165
1 NEED NOT 1770
2 NEED N'T 492
Soruce http://view.byu.edu |