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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We try to avoid ing.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Is the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.
EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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…”
Arrkk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah I’d go with “win in” personally.