Friday, May 20, 2022

Oops, the Guardian gets it wrong

It seems the past participle is on its last legs.

The text below is from yesterday’s Guardian

"The four employees who used to work at Schröder’s office, located almost directly opposite the Russian embassy on the Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin, already resigned of their own accord in early March, after their boss had showed no intention of stepping down from his boardroom roles at Russian oil company Rosneft and pipeline company Nord Stream."

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