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

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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