Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage

ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  prefer is a transitive verb, wins is intransitive.

  They’ve changed “would prefer (he) wins” to “prefer (he) wins” which is still correct f.

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  • ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.

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  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We try to avoid ing.

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• Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can we get those AI titles? At least they’d be readable over this abomination.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ќ.

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