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Yzh1978 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

This is a dream come true?

i think it is ungrammatical ,but i saw it in a tv dram. It should be "this is a dream coming true". Am I right? Thank you!
  

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"This is a dream coming true" implies that the dream hasn't fully come true yet. We are in the midst of the process. "This is a dream come true" is a common idiom, and it suggests that the dream has already fully come true.

— Ozzourti

  • "This is a dream coming true" implies that the dream hasn't fully come true yet.
  • We are in the midst of the process.
  • "This is a dream come true" is a common idiom, and it suggests that the dream has already fully come true.
  • The process is over.
  • You can look at the expressions this way: This is a dream (that is) coming true.
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"This is a dream coming true" implies that the dream hasn't fully come true yet. We are in the midst of the process.

"This is a dream come true" is a common idiom, and it suggests that the dream has already fully come true. The process is over.

You can look at the expressions this way:

This is a dream (that is) coming true.
This is a dream (that has) come
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But there are two verbs in the sentence: "is "and "come". Why not "This is a my accomplished dream"?
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