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Non native so maybe it just gets lost, but I don’t get it?

Is the error that the possessive ‘s is missing at ‘dogs’ ? If so, then its plural… I don’t get it ^^’

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Yes, they forgot the apostrophe, so the Dad took “Have you seen the dogs bowl?” to mean “Have you seen the dogs go bowling?”

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Oohhh OK, now I get it. I was missing that ‘bowl’ is short for bowling.

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You could also read it as a vowel.

(in bowling) to roll a ball along a smooth surface during a game of bowls or bowling

(in Cricket) to throw a ball towards a batsman (= the player who hits the ball) using a vertical circular movement of the arm while running:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bowl

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It’s not short for bowling (although it can be expressed like that too), it’s the infinitive form of the verb, to bowl. “Have you seen the birds fly?”

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While that gives the response more legitimacy, dads don’t actually care about the grammar and will make a smart ass response just based on how the question sounds.

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Have you seen the bowl belonging to the dog? (The intended question of the asker. You’re right, it’s missing the possessive.)

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Have you seen the dogs bowling? (The dad’s perfect misinterpretation.)

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You’re on the right track. The possessive 's is missing which would make it the bowl of the dog (as intended). The way it is written, “bowl” could be a verb as in “have you seen the dogs when they bowl”. Hope that makes sense and I’m a non native myself so not 100% sure myself

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Yep, that’s it. This way “bowl” becomes a verb and the sentence means “Have you seen the dogs play bowling?”.

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