[Ads-l] "grow ups"??

[Benjamin Barrett]

Google has a very small number of hits for “he grows up” and “she grows up” (including a verb conjugation site). Given the small number, it looks like a typo. It would be interesting to know if there are a lot more of these, though. Perhaps there are people who are conjugating the entire phrase. 

A similar phenomenon is seen in English with the genitive, where the ’s part gets thrown on the end of a phrase, like the king of Spain’s crown (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_possessive <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_possessive>).

BB

> On 9 Apr 2016, at 19:51, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Is the following a simple typo (placing the "s" after the wrong word), or an example of some known type of error?  ("I/you grow up", "he/she grow-ups" instead of "grows up"?)
> 
> 
> "With help from a young girl and a widower, a woman finally grow ups and takes on the real world."
> 
> A FiOs TV guide description of a movie.
> 
> Joel


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