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A Question Of Questions Are there other verbs that work like “dare” and “need”?

The verbs to 'dare'dare and to 'need'need do not require auxiliaries when used in the interrogativeinterrogative; for example, e.g. "need“need I?"” is as acceptable as "do“do I need?"”

Are there any other such verbs (excludingExcluding the auxiliaries themselves - to 'be'(like be, 'do'do, 'have' etchave), of course are there any other such verbs that work that way?)

A Question Of Questions

The verbs to 'dare' and to 'need' do not require auxiliaries when used in the interrogative, e.g. "need I?" is as acceptable as "do I need?"

Are there any other such verbs (excluding the auxiliaries themselves - to 'be', 'do', 'have' etc, of course?)

Are there other verbs that work like “dare” and “need”?

The verbs dare and need do not require auxiliaries when used in the interrogative; for example, “need I?” is as acceptable as “do I need?”

Excluding the auxiliaries themselves (like be, do, have), are there any other such verbs that work that way?

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A Question Of Questions

The verbs to 'dare' and to 'need' do not require auxiliaries when used in the interrogative, e.g. "need I?" is as acceptable as "do I need?"

Are there any other such verbs (excluding the auxiliaries themselves - to 'be', 'do', 'have' etc, of course?)