zabadoh@ani.social to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months agoBritish public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farageani.socialimagemessage-square96linkfedilinkarrow-up1487arrow-down14
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minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 months agoprefer is a transitive verb, wins is intransitive. They’ve changed “[they] …(would)… prefer [he] wins [it] than Nigel (does)” to “[they] prefer [he] wins [it] than Nigel” which is still correct.
minus-squareiegod@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIs the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
minus-squareAnn Archy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoCount Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.
minus-squareArrkk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYeah I’d go with “win in” personally.
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoAs 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…”
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThey could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine
prefer is a transitive verb, wins is intransitive.
They’ve changed “[they] …(would)… prefer [he] wins [it] than Nigel (does)” to “[they] prefer [he] wins [it] than Nigel” which is still correct.
Is the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.
Yeah I’d go with “win in” personally.
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…”
They could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine