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Thomas_Anderson Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Why "a cartoonist's dream come true" is correct?
Hi,
I came across this passage at Wikipedia :
Einstein is a favorite model for depictions of mad scientists and absent-minded professors; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyle have been widely copied and exaggerated. The Star Wars character Yoda's eyes were modeled after Einstein's. Time magazine's Frederic Golden wrote that Einstein was "a cartoonist's dream come true." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_in_popular_culture
Now I don't understand why it is "a cartoonist's dream come true"?
'A cartoonist's dream' is a third person singular so 'come' should have a 's' in the end, i.e, a cartoonist's dream comes true.
So am I right and the sentence is wrong or my understanding of the rule is wrong?
Please, explain this point.
Thanks.
I came across this passage at Wikipedia :
Einstein is a favorite model for depictions of mad scientists and absent-minded professors; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyle have been widely copied and exaggerated. The Star Wars character Yoda's eyes were modeled after Einstein's. Time magazine's Frederic Golden wrote that Einstein was "a cartoonist's dream come true." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein_in_popular_culture
Now I don't understand why it is "a cartoonist's dream come true"?
'A cartoonist's dream' is a third person singular so 'come' should have a 's' in the end, i.e, a cartoonist's dream comes true.
So am I right and the sentence is wrong or my understanding of the rule is wrong?
Please, explain this point.
Thanks.
Top answer
The original sentence is correct. Come in it isn't in the present tense. It is the past participle (come, came, come ).
- The original sentence is correct.
- Come in it isn't in the present tense.
- It is the past participle (come, came, come ).
- That's why no s can be added.
- You can think that this idiomatic use of come has arisen from: a dream [that/which has] come true.
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The original sentence is correct. Come in it isn't in the present tense. It is the past participle (come, came, come). That's why no s can be added. You can think that this idiomatic use of come has arisen from: a dream [that/which has] come true.
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Thomas_AndersonNow I don't understand why it is "a cartoonist's dream come true"?Einstein was called "a cartoonist's dream come true" because he was so easy for cartoonists to caricature.
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RayHThanks RayH for further elaboration!Thomas_AndersonNow I don't understand why it is "a cartoonist's dream come true"?Einstein was called "a cartoonist's dream come true" because he was so easy for cartoonists to caricature.
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