What is the difference between need and have to?
What is the difference between the two forms of written form? What are the 3 cases that are exactly the same meaning?
Why did l get up at 5 at night? He just can’t get up every day that he’s got to be early. How often did a man stay in bed much longer?
Why did a guy get up at 5 o’clock? Is it normal or is it normal to get up early? The man sat in a hospital bed for 2 hours before falling sore. Though he couldn’t stay there any longer.
Why did he get up at 5 o’clock? At 9 pm on Monday morning, he barely required to get up. And he didn’t need to get up very early. Why didn’t you stay in the bed longer in the morning?
What is your view on the world?
It probably rarely affects actual usage, but I suggest this as a credible distinguishing case…
I want to go to her garden party, but don’t want to go because I’ll have to eat those stupid cucumber sandwiches, which I know will give me indigestion.
As a native speaker I think the vast majority would prefer have over need above. Have to (usually pronounced haff in past/past tense) connotates more strongly with obligation (often, to external authority, as opposed to meeting “internal” needs/requirements).?
I can’t think of a corresponding context where need is preferred over have to, and I admit I’ve no authoritative source for my speculation as to why (or even whether) my cited case applies.
If perfect construction is used to reflect the fact that something was actually done, despite being unnecessary/not required, as opposed to not done, because it was unnecessary (always used for the purpose of assessing the fit and finish). OP’s full context, obviously the former applies, but I
tried to answer “requirements” but didn’t bother *he stayed in bed because he actually mustn’t have had to get up so early! * He stayed
in bed because he didn’t have to get up so early. 2 A:
Hasn’t he stayed in bed since he didn’t want to get up so early? (similar to 2a)
Arguably the principle of horror aequi (we don’t like to hear or read identical constructions too close together) militates in favour of You didn’t need to have done that (but explicitly, you did ) rather than the have to version. I don’t think, because of the hafta dialect differences in our language, it really
matters.
