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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Easy come, easy go


He found this money on the road and already spent it. With him, it's easy come, easy go.
Why isn't it "easy comes, easy goes"? As in "what comes easily, goes easily".
  

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Hi, It's just something we all say. We don't try to apply grammar rules. Clive

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Hi,

It's just something we all say. We don't try to apply grammar rules.

Clive
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But if we apply grammar rules on sentences and proverbs, I think this should also become grammatically correct.

So, do you say there's no real reason for this?

Can you list more sentences like this, in which we don't apply grammar rules?

Regards
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Hi,

But if we apply grammar rules on sentences and proverbs, I think this should also become grammatically correct.

So, do you say there's no real reason for this? Right

Can you list more sentences like this, in which we don't apply grammar rules?

Well,
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I truly appreciate your explanation. However, this sentence is as used as other idioms,
so why do we accept it to be not grammatical? Why do we always attempt to speak
fluent and good English, while we don't have a real explanation to such a simple
and wrong sentence?

Let's assume you had to say this sentence: "What comes around goes around".

Would you say it: "What c
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Anonymous Why isn't it "easy comes, easy goes"?
Why should it be that? Easy comes, easy goes is just as ungrammatical as easy come, easy go since "easy" doesn't do the coming and going.

CB
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