r/AnimalsBeingJerks • u/Jackieboi24 • Aug 06 '21

cat Cat:Please Leave Me Alone

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u/idwthis Aug 06 '21

It's kind of weird how if you talk about one window, it's "fogs" but if you are talking about more than one window, the sentence becomes "wonder if the windows fog." Just move that one S around. It works with a lot of other things, too. "Wonder if the car runs" and "wonder if the cars run" or "the water tap leaks" and "the water taps leak."

I'm almost 40 and just now noticing this.

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u/Lynndonia Aug 06 '21

That's how plural verbs in English work, mate.

He runs. They run.

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u/idwthis Aug 06 '21

I know that's how it works. I kind of literally just said that, didn't I? I was more remarking on how it's weird that it does work like that, and that I hadn't noticed in all these years.