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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • 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:

    the white house needs to be burnt again.

    Or

    the white house needs burning again.

    I’ve also seen

    it needs fixed

    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.