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AM COMEHAVE COME

Common Stumbling Blocks - Peculiar Constructions - Misused Forms. "I am come" points to my being here, while "I have come" intimates that I have just arrived. When the subject is not a person, the verb to be should be used in preference to the verb to have; as, "The box is come" instead of "The box has come." Next: PAST TENSEPAST PARTICIPLE Previous: SEQUENCE OF PERSON Report Privacy SHARE ADD TO EBOOK

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