zabadoh@ani.social to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agoBritish public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farageani.socialimagemessage-square101linkfedilinkarrow-up1558arrow-down14
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minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-21 month 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-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThey could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine
minus-squareiegod@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 month agoIs the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
minus-squareAnn Archy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoCount Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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-squareArrkk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYeah I’d go with “win in” personally.
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.
They could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine
We try to avoid ing.
Is the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.
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…”
Yeah I’d go with “win in” personally.