They could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine
Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 hours agoprefer is a transitive verb, wins is intransitive.
They’ve changed “would prefer (he) wins” to “prefer (he) wins” which is still correct f.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
We try to avoid ing.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Is the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.