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Old 10-13-2003, 04:49 PM
TonyB06 TonyB06 is offline
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can the GC English teachers help me here...

Is anybody else bothered by the following type of bootleg sentence that I now hear all the time?

"The car needs washed."

NO. The car needs to be washed. I know we tend relax our language a bit away from the professional setting but this one bugs me for some reason...
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