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Wordsleuth (2004, vol. 1, 1): Of Bangbellies and Banquet Burgers: Updating the Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Jespersen states that "this is practically the only way in which ’must’ can be used as a preterite in modern colloquial speech." 6 There are no gatekeepers and there are no rules (well, there are a few best practices if you want to grow a brand). Actually, learning to dance has been a low-key goal of mine for a little while now – once I can carve out some time in my schedule…Life is full of circumstances where it can be difficult to say what we’re really thinking, but silence sometimes comes at a high cost. Expressing yourself isn’t an option, but it’s needed – you owe that both to yourself and the people you love. If you’re someone who fears vulnerability and has a problem with expressing themselves, self-expression doesn’t always come in the form of words, but it can also be through creativity and art. Although less emphasized, the idea of necessity is also present in expressions such as "I must say", which means "I cannot help saying", and "you must know or understand" which means "you ought to be informed" or "I find it necessary that you should know or understand": Dancers are often seen as individuals who shed open their naked souls to their audience as it can be that vulnerable. You can’t dance without emotions as you’ll look lifestyle and stiff. If dance is the only way you know how to express yourself, that’s completely okay. Clarify your intentions. Everyone benefits when we devote ourselves to promoting the common good. It beats worrying about being comfortable or universally popular.
Beside this preterite which Jespersen calls "preterite of indirect speech", there is the "preterite of reality". This is where grammarians do not agree with each other. The OED states that there is one case when "must" can be used as a preterite without being part of a subordinate clause: "As a past or historical present tense, ’must’ is sometimes used satirically or indignantly with reference to some foolish or annoying action or some untoward event." They have all the templates, creative assets and elements you could need to make your design come to life.This is especially the rule in the preterite indicative in subordinate clauses, especially subordinate statements, in negative contexts: Need" according to all dictionaries is a verb that means "have need of, want, require" and is conjugated as all full verbs normally are: "He needs money; do you need anything else?" But apart from this, it also has the meaning of "to be under a necessity or obligation to do something". When used in this sense, it often shows some peculiarities by which verbs are recognized as auxiliaries in English: Jespersen adds examples without a following "not" which, he says, "are less frequent, but nowadays not at all rare". 23
Another grammarian, Klapperich, pronounced Schulze’s conclusions to be erroneous, saying that the majority of his examples were "dependent declarative clauses" and that "many of the seemingly independent clauses" contained "a latent oratio obliqua". He suggested that the statement that "must" as a preterite is rare "needs the addition of the qualification: in an independent sentence". 9 But another grammarian, Klinghardt, saw no reason why "must" should be considered rare even in independent sentences. He firmly stated that he would not find anything strange in such sentences as: "Last night he must again go to bed rather early" thus contradicting Dr.Bradley who had laid down as a principle that to say ’I must go to London yesterday’ would now be "a ludicrous blunder".My mouth was so dry, I must wet it with seawater before I was able to shout. (Stevenson, Kidnapped, p.14)
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