Questions tagged [obligation]

I've heard a sentence like this: "I had to go to the doctor" for an obligation in the past. I would have expected: "I hadn't to go to the doctor" for the negative form, but I heard: "I haven't had to go to the doctor" why? Best

I get reply from one of my client today Would you be happy to put a no obligation visual together for me? What does he mean to say? As there is no more lines, we could not get what he meant to say.

Does the phrase "ought to" express the irrelevance of the person taking the action? For example, if someone says "Governments which are just, ought to ensure food security for their citizens", are they specifically saying certain governments ought…