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The white house needs burnt again.
Especially the ballroom
They'll rebuild it even more tackly than last time.
Hey can I ask you a question? Is English your primary language? I'm trying to understand why I so often see people omitting "to be" or using past tense as a future tense.
To me the sentence should be:
Or
I've also seen
Where the same rules should apply.
Is this the language evolving? A short hand through some phone keyboards/ autocorrect or something, or maybe you're translating from another language. It's totally fine, everyone understands what you're saying. I just am trying to figure out this phenomenon.
Nah, it's my third (though I mostly consume media in English).
Mostly picked up through reading, and torrents, which explains me mixing dialects without rhyme or reason, though I try to favour English over American most of the time.
Correct, as far as I know.
That seems to be correct too, though I'm not sure if it depends on the specific dialect.
Which is what I used (though I used the irregular form burnt instead of burned, which is probably me mixing dialects again), and isn't technically correct, though it is used in some dialects.
I just thought it sounded appropriate for this particular situation. 🤷♂️
Probably. Languages do be like that. 🤷♂️
Thanks!
They do that here in Scotland. It's perfectly normal to hear someone say that something "needs done" or whatever. I found it weird at first, but I got used to it
I don't think anything has changed, perhaps you are noticing it more. It's not correct grammer, it's probably an intentional stylistic choice.