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what requires vs what required

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'What requires' is used to ask about current or future needs, while 'what required' is used to ask about past needs.

Last updated: April 01, 2024 • 1188 views

what requires

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to ask about current or future needs or demands.

Examples:

What requires your immediate attention?
I wonder what requires such a large budget allocation.

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Your BFW specialised administrator knows what requires a comprehensive, value neutralising administration and structures completely and transparent its achievement offer.
What requires a hat like that? Is he fishing?
Rarely thinks about what requires the door - because everything is clear.
That's what requires an explanation right now?
That's what requires an explanation right now?
by Ignazio Cusimano An effective method to classify projects involving the use of wind power and the market of that energy is what requires an assessment of the different applications and end use of...
What requires a sword, Marco?
What requires the deepening of also what nourishes the irrationality of hierarchical... exploitation and repression.
What requires a sword, Marco?
What requires the people? Freedom... and justice.

Alternatives:

what needs
what demands
what necessitates

what required

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to ask about past needs or demands.

Examples:

Can you tell me what required such urgent action?
I'm curious about what required such a drastic change.

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The default of their bestowal can involve the impossibility to obtain what required.
The lack of provision can result in the impossibility to obtain what required.
Apart from the specifications of surfing data, the user can decide if giving his/her personal data or not. Failing to transfer them can involve the impossibility of getting what required.
Hiring Matt and Danny is a tacid admission of guilt and a silent act of contrition and that's what required here.
Which is why I would like to conclude these signs by thanking the person who, two months before being elected pope, agreed to write the introduction to a small book of prayers that also contains the how and what required to make a good confession.
What required my presence in this godforsaken house at this godforsaken hour?
What required particular skill...

Alternatives:

what was needed
what was demanded
what was necessary

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