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This floor needs mopped. Please find the janitor.

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    It's grammatical in Pittsburgh. It's ungrammatical in London. See this blog post. – Peter Shor May 08 '18 at 16:16
  • As a native Brit, I think it's OK, myself. – Nigel J May 08 '18 at 16:44
  • It's a widely-used construction in the United States. Elsewhere, find a sociolinguist to tell you. – John Lawler May 08 '18 at 18:57
  • @JohnLawler -- It's never been widely-used in any part of the US I'm familiar with, and it makes English teachers wince all over the world. It should be either "This floor needs mopping" or "This floor needs to be mopped". – Hot Licks May 08 '18 at 20:41
  • Related, possible duplicate: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/9331/needs-cleaned-or-needs-to-be-cleaned – MetaEd May 08 '18 at 21:06
  • Well, then English teachers all over the globe will just have to wince, I'm afraid. Serves them right for believing in zombie grammar. If they want to find out the actual facts, instead of another ignorant opinion, they can check the link @PeterShor obligingly provided, which I repeat here: https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/needs-washed. – John Lawler May 08 '18 at 22:49

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It is grammatically correct, consisting of elision/omission of "to be" (this floor needs to be mopped). Having said that, you would be more likely to hear "this floor needs mopping" in UK English.

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