Correct the sentence

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
1

I have two sentences.

  1. He needs not go there.

  2. He need not go there.

Can you please tell me which one of them is right?

2

The second is correct.

Here ‘need’ is modal. This auxiliary form is used mainly in questions and negatives. It has no –s in the third person singular.
She need not work today.
He need not wait.
Learn more about ‘need’ here.

3

Thanks for help.
I have also problem with these two sentences.

  1. He is seeing the stars.
  2. He is looking the stars.

I thought that both of them are right but in my book it is given that first one is wrong. I didn’t understand why? May you explain me, please?

4

Seeing’ is correct.

You would need the preposition ‘at’ for the second to be right (looking at)

5

Can you tell me which one of the following is correct?

He only eats when he is hungry. Or, he eats only when he is hungry.

6

Well… thanks Beeesneees for explaining that need stuff, I was about to say those 2 sentences were wrong because of the 3rd person rule.

As for the last one, Rajesh43, according to the Collins dictionary, ONLY is placed directly before the word or words that it modifies (in this case, ''WHEN he’s ungry"). Then, the second sentence is correct, but so is the first one. The thing is the first one is a bit more formal than the second.

7

He eats only when he is hungry.

I have made two inversions of this sentence.

1.Only does he eat when he is hungry.
2.Only when he is hungry does he eat .

Can you also tell me which one of them is correct?

8

Hello Beeesneees.

Can I say “He doesn´t need go there” instead of " He need not go there." ?

Thanks.

9

Only the second one is correct.

10

Yes, that’s fine.

11

You have to say: He doesn’t need to go there.

Alan

12

Can you help me in finding which one of the following sentence is correct?

Lagan is neither an actor nor producer.
Lagan is neither an actor nor a producer.

Thanks.

13

Usually, the article would be added both times. There’s no firm rule though.

14

Thanks Alan!

15

I THINK THAT WE SHOULD SAY THAT “HE DOESN’T NEED TO GO THERE” BECAUSE NEED HERE IS NOT A MODAL VERB, IT IS NOW AN AUXILARY VERB, AND WE NEED
“TO”

16

Well, yes. I would add that using capital letters is a way of shouting on the Internet and so I would ask you not to do that.

Alan

17

May you please pick the correct sentence of the following.

It was ten years ago since we met them.
It was ten years ago that we met them.

18

It was ten years ago that we met them.

It has been ten years since we met them.

19

Thanks for such a great advice.

20

Can you also suggest me which of the following sentence is correct?

Abhishek is fairly blunt.
Abhishek is rather blunt.

It will be so nice of you if you can tell me the difference between ‘fairly’ and ‘rather’.

Thanks,