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[-] JWBananas@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months 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@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months 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.

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