Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X
stoly@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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.
Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X
stoly@lemmy.world 1 day agoI 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.
JWBananas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Worse, to me, is that there is a perfectly grammatically correct way to be just as brief.
Wrong:
Right:
stoly@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.