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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think you’d call this elision. Assume that the phrase is originally “the car needs to be washed” but you cut out “to be”, making it into a shorter form.

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  • JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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