ATTENZIONE
VERSIONE CORRETTA QUI SOTTO
These windows need cleaning.
Your comments are always very welcome.
Quiz Time in inglese: intermediate exercise 20
It’s Quiz Time again at Ingliando.
Do you know the right answer?
ATTENZIONE
Ingliando 
I think it’s D
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“Need to be cleaned” would be possible, Dani, but without “have”.
The only option here is ‘A’.
Need with Gerunds or Passive Infinitives: in certain circumstances, a gerund may follow need. In this case, the gerund carries a passive meaning. Usually the situations involve fixing or improving something: The house needs painting. = The house needs to be painted.
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Hi Tony my answer is d: these windows have need to be cleaned
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Ecco lo sapevo devo leggere attentamente le tue lezioni. La risposta è A. Quindi la differenza tra need + to infinitive e need + ing è che l’una è attiva, mentre la seconda è passiva? Or haven’t I understood anything?
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I think you have understood, Gaetano, but you can have a passive infinitive instead of the gerund:
These windows need cleaning = these windows need to be cleaned.
However, this option was not available in the exercise. 😉
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in my opinion is c
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This one needs thinking about, Giovanna. 😉
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i don’t know ….. Can you explain me?,,😍
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Need with Gerunds or Passive Infinitives: in certain circumstances, a gerund may follow need. In this case, the gerund carries a passive meaning. Usually the situations involve fixing or improving something: The house needs painting. = The house needs to be painted.
In this exercise, the alternative version, “These windows need to be cleaned”, is not present so ‘A‘ is the only possible answer.
N.B. You will not find “need of + verb”
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A
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Have you been peeping at my notes again? 😉
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