I wonder why people use "come and go" rather than "go and come". Is this rather a question of common usage or would you say that "come and go" behaves like an idiom? It's merely a matter of custom, i.e., common

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In French adjectives often follow nouns and because there was a lot of French influence on English after the Battle of Hastings for about 300 years, in some cases the French word order remains in modern English. Court martial is a good example.

The problem with "hardly do I know about her." is the prepositional phrase - "about her". The way to say this is "I hardly know her." The inversion would be "Hardly do I know her." English is a language that

Your quotation is too short. You have left out something essential: And like pathetic stars, the truck stops and the rock club walls I always knew The word order is poetic because this is a song. The truck stops and the rock club walls is

There's no possibility of misunderstanding with either one. The first sentence has the word order normally given in grammar books for foreign students (= place certain adverbs after the perfect auxuliary have ) while the second makes probably

Hi, A. "Can someone explain to me how do I know when to use this instead of that?" Not OK. B. "Can someone explain to me how I know when to use this instead of that?" OK. As a direct question " how do I know when to use

Hi, In walked Rick and Nancy as Janifer beamed about the official engagement. What does 'in walked' mean? It's just an unusual word order, for emphasis. More normal is Rick and Nancy walked in as Janifer beamed about the official

I went to the cinema and I liked the film very much - I went to the cinema and I liked very much the film Why can´t I say the second one? The word order of the second sentence would be possible in many languages that have special cases for

Hi, The idealistic dreams he chases or The idealistic dreams he chase Does chases refers to 'dreams' or 'he'? To 'he'. Say 'he chase s '. I don't know whether this is intended to be an unusual word order for