Hey /lit/, moron learning English here. Which sentence is correct?

Second one

Second one

The first one if you don't want to be a square.

We both know what need be done senpai

>>7639154
>>7639155

Thought so. But I'm having problems identifying why. I'm at that point where you've internalized enough of the rules to figure out if something seems wrong intuitively, but if I am asked to explain why I'm hard pressed to give a proper answer.

>>7639175
I need
You need
He/She/It needs
They need
We need

For reference.

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>>7639175
future tense? i dunno

>>7639184
>I know what need to be done

>>7639189
>fuck

>>7639184
.You know what need to be done

>>7639189
>What as a subject takes 'it' form

>>7639201

that is what I wanted to know. thanks anon.

>>7639201
this is a lie
you're lying to him

>>7639151
>>7639175
The pronoun "what" is the subject of the second clause and is presumed singular in the absence of other context, so "need" has singular number.

Compare: "We both know what things need to be done."

>>7639175
"what" is always singular, and it is the subject of the subordinate clause.

>>7639185
english actually doesn't have a future tense, we only have present and past. we get other temporal references using things other than tense like auxiliaries, circumlocution, and context.