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Mastergarett Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Came or Come?

Recently,I checked in a site named IMDB.There is a sentence written "The name 'Eminem' came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers)".Why is it came and not comes?What does this sentence mean?Is the event past?I thought it should present tense comes because the properties of present tense is:
  • the action is general
  • the action happens all the time, or habitually, in the past, present and future
  • the action is not only happening now
  • the statement is always true
  

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The expression "to come from" is being used here as "to be invented, created, composed". So the sentence is revealing the origin of the name, which would have been much earlier than the time when the name was well known. CJ

— CalifJim

  • The expression "to come from" is being used here as "to be invented, created, composed".
  • So the sentence is revealing the origin of the name, which would have been much earlier than the time when the name was well known.
  • CJ
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The expression "to come from" is being used here as "to be invented, created, composed". So the sentence is revealing the origin of the name, which would have been much earlier than the time when the name was well known.

CJ
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So is it the event past?And that's why it is in past tense?Can you please explain further.I cannot understand.Try to expalin in detail if you don't mind.Thanks
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Question: Where did that name come from? (past) = How was that name invented or created? (past)

Answer: The name 'Eminem' came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers). (past)

Marshall Mathers created the name by putting together his own initials: M and M : "Em 'n' Em" = "Eminem". (past)

CJ
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