Date:  Tue, 4 Apr 1995 09:19:24 -0500

From:  BARBARA HILL HUDSON <BHHUDSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GROVE.IUP.EDU>

Subject: Re: need + participle



re: needs + past participle





The construction is so common here in Western PA that it has appeared in both

newspaper ads and in headlines. I've been told that some of the earliest

settlers in this area were Scottish, and I believe that Trudgill mentions this

construction and calls it part of Scottish Standard English.





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