Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 11:49 am
can u plz help me
I hope he comes over to Germany
I hope he come over to Germany
which one is correct from the grammar side??
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contrex
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 12:08 pm
I hope he comes over to Germany.
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 12:11 pm
@Bashir rodwan,
Bas you might explain how "come over"
jespah
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 12:17 pm
@Bashir rodwan,
Use the word comes.

The word hope in the sentence has absolutely nothing to do with it. You want to match the verb form to the pronoun it's closest to. Hence I hope and he comes. Hope is the verb matching to I. Comes is the verb matching to he.
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Bashir rodwan
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 12:44 pm
thanks alot 😊
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Bashir rodwan
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 12:50 pm
@dalehileman,
you mean there is something wrong in the sentence form??
contrex
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 12:59 pm
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:
Bas you might explain how "come over"

In informal speech we often use "come" and " go" with words like "over", "up", "down" etc. Surely you must have encountered examples.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 01:07 pm
@Bashir rodwan,
Quote:
you mean there is something wrong in the sentence form??
No Rod, nothing at all. I merely wonder whether it means what you suppose
contrex
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 01:52 pm
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:
I merely wonder whether it means what you suppose

To "come over" often means "to visit", in US English, is that what you think he means? e.g. I hope he comes to Germany to visit me?

You can also use "come over" to mean "travel from another place or country", e.g. many Polish people have come over to Britain in the last five years; my uncle came over from Birmingham last week. Many British people will use "come up" or "come down" if the journey is approximately "up" or "down" on the map, and "come over" if it is more or less horizontal.

dalehileman
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 01:58 pm
@contrex,
Yea Con, exactly. "Over" might imply sea voyage
contrex
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 02:19 pm
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:
Yea Con, exactly. "Over" might imply sea voyage

Or an air journey, where you fly "over" whatever intervenes, land or sea, or a mixture of these.
dalehileman
 
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Reply Sun 3 May, 2015 04:38 pm
@contrex,
Con well put
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 4 May, 2015 04:36 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
In informal speech we often use "come" and " go" with words like "over", "up", "down" etc. Surely you must have encountered examples.



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