• JWBananas
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    21 month ago

    Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.

    Wrong:

    The bed sheets need washed.

    Right:

    The bed sheets need washing.

    • @stoly
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      11 month ago

      And for a linguist the question is really whether there are native speakers who consider it correct. Here there are millions who say yes.