Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 15:29:59 -0500

From: Barbara Need nee1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU

Subject: Re: literary words



You NEEDn't shout

Don't you DARE touch that!

DO try to come

MUST you be so difficult?



The first, third and last verb are auxiliary verbs. The first and

last are (as used here) modals. DARE can also be a modal, but then

it patterns with the modals in not taking do-support. NEED can, like

DARE, be used with do-support--but then it is not considered to

be a modal verb.



Barbara Need

University of Chicago--Linguistics