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What do you think?

Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:23 pm
by J.M.A.
I caught myself saying this the other day:

If he redos his composition, I will adjust his mark.

Does it sound ok to you (I admit it looks strange)? If so, is it because the prefix makes you intuitively recategorize the verb as regular instead of irregular? Am I going native?

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 2:27 am
by Lorikeet
I would have written "redoes."

Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 9:50 am
by woodcutter
I suspect that is a pretty common "mistake", and becoming more common.