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Why 'come'

 
 
Reply Tue 21 Aug, 2007 11:43 pm
This is my greatest dream come true.

Why 'dream come true' instead of 'dream comes true?

Many thanks.
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 12:40 am
In this case, you wouldn't conjugate to come in accordance with dream because dream is not the subject of the sentence. The subject of the sentence is This; come true is an adjectival clause that modifies the noun dream. Furthermore, dream come true is one of those common idioms in English in which the verb takes the subjunctive form.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 01:34 am
Thanks.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 06:33 am
Your dream has come true. Your dream has arrived.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 06:41 am
Thanks, guys.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 07:26 am
Shapeless wrote:
In this case, you wouldn't conjugate to come in accordance with dream because dream is not the subject of the sentence. The subject of the sentence is This; come true is an adjectival clause that modifies the noun dream. Furthermore, dream come true is one of those common idioms in English in which the verb takes the subjunctive form.


Well said. This is quite a difficult concept, probably best understood by a foreign learner as a complete phrase "a dream come true".

Yes, subjunctive. Look it up in your book, Yoong liat
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 07:28 am
Thanks, Mc Tag.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 22 Aug, 2007 10:07 am
It really means "A dream (which has) come true". Maybe that will help.
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