Present & Past Modal Structures

We got a travel card when we arrived in the city so that we _____ tickets every time we went on the metro.

• needn't have bought

• didn't have to buy

• shouldn't have bought

You ........................ in the city centre. The car parks are ridiculously expensive.

• didn't have to park

• needn't have parked

• shouldn't have parked

We booked a table in advance, but when we arrived, the restaurant was fairly empty, so we _________________.

• needn't have bothered

• didn't need to bother

• mustn't have bothered

If you're going cycling, _____ some water with you. It's going to be a really hot day.

• you had to take

• you'd better take

• you needn't take

Legally, if the customers were under sixteen, the ogranisers ought ________________ sold them tickets without permission from an adult.

• to have not

• not have

• not to have

I bought a ticket for the bus, but I _______________ it to anyone when I got on or during the journey.

• needn't have shown

• didn't need to show

• shouldn't have shown

I fed the cat after I got back from school in the evening. I didn’t know that my sister had fed it thirty minutes earlier.

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• I didn’t need to feed the cat.

• I needn’t have fed the cat.

When I got back from school, I saw a note on the table from my sister, saying that she had fed the cat thirty minutes earlier.

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• I didn’t need to feed the cat.

• I needn’t have fed the cat.

I think it would be best if you went to the party.

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• You had better not go there.

• You had better go there.

You didn’t ask for the exact address and now we don’t know where to go.

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• You ought to have asked for the address.

• You ought not to have asked for the address.