Exercise D

Circle the correct words to complete the sentences.

1. I don’t need to set / needn’t have set my alarm before going to bed last night because I
was awake before daybreak.

2. I didn’t need to get up / needn’t have got up early this morning, so I stayed in bed
until 9 o’clock.

3. We don’t need to worry / needn’t have worried about the test. It wasn’t as difficult as
expected.

4. We have lots of leftover food. We don’t need to bring / needn’t have brought so much
food to the class party.

5. You needn’t put / needn’t have put the dictionary back. I’m about to use it.

6. There weren’t many people at the restaurant. We don’t need to bother / needn’t have
bothered making a reservation.

7. I have to work late this evening. You don’t need to wait / needn’t have waited for me
for dinner.