zabadoh@ani.social to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 27 天前British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farageani.socialimagemessage-square101linkfedilinkarrow-up1557arrow-down14
arrow-up1553arrow-down1imageBritish public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farageani.socialzabadoh@ani.social to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 27 天前message-square101linkfedilink
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-227 天前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.
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·27 天前They could have just used “winning” and it would have been fine
minus-squareiegod@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·27 天前Is the “wins” that throws me. Shouldn’t that be “win”?
minus-squareAnn Archy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·26 天前Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election.
minus-squareEvilHankVenture@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·26 天前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…”
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.
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…”