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Roky0071 Posted 9 years ago
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Here comes the bus or the bus is coming here

"Here comes the bus" means the bus comes here(momentary present tense).But if you see the bus coming from a corner, the sentence should be The bus is coming here. But we still say "here comes the bus". Why do we say this, not "the bus is coming here"?

  

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"Here comes the bus" doesn't mean "The bus comes here" or "The bus is coming here". com/definition/us/here ).

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"Here comes the bus" doesn't mean "The bus comes here" or "The bus is coming here".

"Here + present-tense verb" is an idiomatic pattern "used when indicating a time, point, or situation that has arrived or is happening" (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/here)

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