I needn't have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it started raining.
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I needn't have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it started raining.
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I need not have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it stared raining.
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It began to rain, so he need not have watered the lawn.
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The plants must have died because no one watered them.
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