Sat / sitting

6 replies

LynetteScavo · 08/12/2010 20:21

"Those of you who were sat over there..."

"Those of you who were sitting over there..."

Or are both correct?

I'm gong with sitting.

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PigeonPie · 08/12/2010 22:32

'Were sitting' I feel is better.

jetgirl · 08/12/2010 22:37

'Were sitting' is imperfect tense, 'sat' is perfect tense so you can't have 'were sat'.

So, yes, were sitting is correct.

overmydeadbody · 09/12/2010 08:09

"...were sat..." is wrong.

It is sitting.

takingchances · 15/12/2010 16:50

"They were sat" is horrendous. Even worse is "I were sat". This is particular to the English spoken in the UK - in no other Anglophone country do people say "He was sat there".
He was SITTING.
I was SITTING.
SITTTTTTTTING

Barbeasty · 15/12/2010 19:27

When you sat there, you were sitting.

Ephiny · 27/12/2010 19:08

I've been hearing this a lot recently, and wondered if I was going crazy because no one else seems to realise it's wrong! It sounds really jarring and ignorant to my ears, though seems to have become normal usage.

Every time someone says 'I was sat at my desk' or something I want to say 'oh, really, by whom?' though they would probably have no idea what I meant :(

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