Is "to put something" grammatically correct? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by gentooer@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'll preface this by saying that English is not my mother language and I'm sorry if this isn't the right community, but I didn't find a more appropriate one.

Last year I started to notice more and more people on YouTube for example using the verb "to put" without a preposition -- like "Now I put the cheese" -- which sounds very weird and kind of feels wrong to me. Is this really used in spoken English and is it grammatically correct?

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[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

It's slangy, for sure. It's said in a way where the rest of the sentence is not explicitly stated but implied. Like, "Now I put the cheese... " (On the burger), and then I put the bun. (Again, on the burger.) It's not terribly uncommon, but it does happen.

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