Peculiarities in English [antikvár]

PART ONE PECULIARITIES (and Fundamental Uses) of SPECIAL VERBS MUST, HAVE TO, SHOULD, OUGHT TO in Expressions of Necessity, Duty, Obligation and Advisability (Affirmative and Negative) Present and Future Affirmative § i. Necessity in the present and future can be expressed by must or have {has) io# or—in colloquial spoken English only—have (has) got to, followed by an Ordinary Infinitive. (See page 250 for Table of Infinitive Forms.) e.g. " I really must stop smoking so much." "He has to have an operation at once." " He has got to have an operation at once." "I must go to see him again next week." "You have to be there at ten o'clock tomorrow morning." " You have got to be there at ten o'clock tomorrow morning." * See page 25 for a further discussion of have to in expressions of necessity. B I