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

ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As a teacher once made my class chant as we marched around the school, “singular verbs end in s”. Count BinFace is the subject and wins is the verb of the clause “Count BinFace wins…”

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    • Arrkk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I’d go with “win in” personally.

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  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We try to avoid ing.

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• Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ќ.

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