BE TO

ORDER
YOU ARE TO COME TOMORROW
Future_formal arrangement
The President is to visit the province in two days’ time

past
Future in the
BE DESTINED TO
She was to come an important inventor

PURPOSE: cond. clauses

 NEED (modal V or Lex V)
• MODAL • LEXICAL

NECESSITY

• Need you leave soon? • I don’t need to call

I DIDN’T NEED TO CLEAN THE ROOM________AS IT WASN’T NECESSARY, i

DIDN’T DO IT
I

I NEEDN’T HAVE CLEANED THE ROOM_______although it wasn’t

necessary, I did it
HAD BETTER WOULD RATHER
• 1. STRONG • 1. PREFERENCE
RECOMMENDATION I’d rather stay at home
You’d better be quick than go to a disco
( I urge you to be quick)

2. WARNING
He’d better not do that
(I warn him not to do that)