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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
The rain come down.
The rain came down.
Down came the rain.
Down it came.
All three sentences above are grammatical and my question is: why is it that *Down came it is ungrammatical?
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We don't say that because "it" is too weak to take the stress that is required on a word in that position.
- We don't say that because "it" is too weak to take the stress that is required on a word in that position.
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We don't say that because "it" is too weak to take the stress that is required on a word in that position.
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