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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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[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

As a native English speaker it sounds strange to me. I have heard it used before by a fluent English speaker who was not a native speaker and it made sense, but caught me off guard at first.

It reminds me of how my French grandma would say "shut the lights" instead of "shut off the lights", or "shut the lights off". It makes enough sense to understand, but doesn't feel quite right.

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