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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Here come the teams!

Here comes the teams.

Here come the teams!

I've come across such sentences in today's newspaper sport reports.

Is Here comes the teams grammatical?

  

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tkacka15 Is Here comes the teams grammatical? No. I've never heard that one!

  • tkacka15 Is Here comes the teams grammatical?
  • No.
  • I've never heard that one!
  • These work the same way as 'there' constructions.
  • The agreement is with the noun phrase that follows the verb.
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tkacka15Is Here comes the teams grammatical?

No. I've never heard that one!

These work the same way as 'there' constructions. The agreement is with the noun phrase that follows the verb.


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The sentence "Here come the teams!" is okay. But even this is a little unusual. In what situation would you say something like this? In American newspaper sports reporting, a sentence like this would rarely, if ever, be heard.


The sentence "Here comes the teams." would ordinarily be ungrammatical. But it could be okay if "the teams" has a singular sense. For example, if "the

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