▲ 547 ▼ British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage (ani.social) submitted 2 weeks ago* by zabadoh@ani.social to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk 101 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 week ago (1 child) They could have just used "winning" and it would have been fine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago We try to avoid ing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 week ago (3 children) Is the "wins" that throws me. Shouldn't that be "win"? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Arrkk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Yeah I'd go with "win in" personally. permalink fedilink source parent [–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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..." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 week ago (1 child) They could have just used "winning" and it would have been fine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago We try to avoid ing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 week ago (3 children) Is the "wins" that throws me. Shouldn't that be "win"? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Arrkk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Yeah I'd go with "win in" personally. permalink fedilink source parent [–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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..." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago Count Binface wins. The election. They prefer he wins. The election. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Arrkk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago Yeah I'd go with "win in" personally. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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..." permalink fedilink source parent
