11.12 'Need' and 'dare' as modals and as full verbs11.12C Uses of 'dare' [> LEG I I .67-69]
Study:
таWe use dare in four ways to express:
1 courage: Very few climbers have dared (to) attempt Mount Everest without oxygen.
Dare (to) is in the affirmative here, and this use is relatively rare.
2 lack of courage: I don't dare (to) tell the children that our holiday has been cancelled.
This use of dare (to), in the negative, is the most common.3 challenge: I dare you to jump off that wall. (Not 7 dare you jump")
We use dare only as a full verb with to for challenging. We use it in the affirmative and negative
like any other verb. 'Challenging' is common in the language of children.
4 outrage: How dare you read my private diary! (Not *How dare you to read*)
We use dare only as a modal without to when expressing outrage.Write: What do the sentences below express? Choose a, b, c, or d:
a courage b lack of courage с challenge d outrage1 You dare raise your voice! où
2 I dare you to put a spider in her desk.
3 How dare you speak to me like that?
4 He's the only person who'll dare (to) stand up to her!
5 I wanted to ask for some time off, but I didn't dare.
6 Jill's friends dared her to bring her pet snake to class.
7 I daren't ask for any more money.
8 He lost his job because he dared (to) speak out.
9 Don't you dare do anything like that in public again!
10 I daren't have said so at the time, but I was very bored.
11 John never dares to stand up in public and say what he thinks.
12 I'm going to break the door down! - Just you dare!11.12D Context
Write: Combine the correct forms of dare and need with the verbs in brackets.UNWELCOME FRESH AIR!
It was a routine flight from Hilo on Hawaii to Kahului 110 miles away. Suddenly, there was a
tremendous noise and the top of the plane was torn away! Ninety-four passengers (not move)(^1) wondering what would happen next. They (not worry) (^2) because
Robert Schornsteimer, the pilot, was firmly in control. For 25 minutes they hardly (breathe)
(^3) though there was plenty of unwelcome fresh air! 'I (not open) 4
my mouth,' one of the passengers said later. 'I hardly (tell)^5 you how terrified I was.'
The passengers embraced the pilot who had brought the plane down safely. 'I've heard of a plane
flying off a roof,' joked one of them later, 'but never of a roof flying off a plane!'
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Plenty of unwelcome fresh air!