l need help

[5jj]

***** ONLY A NON-TEACHER'S OPINION *****


Xanadu,


If I understand Professor George O. Curme correctly, the English

people used "be" for the present perfect many years ago. Here are some

examples from his scholarly book:

The tree is fallen. = The tree has fallen.

I am this instant arrived here. = I have arrived.

" whom they say is kill'd to-night on your suggestion" (Shakespeare)

= has been killed

Therefore, I think that your quotation is an example of older and more

elegant English that is still used on special occasions. Probably

"I am come" = I have come.

Our famous president Abraham Lincoln used this older English

during a short and beautiful speech that he gave at a cemetery honoring

soldiers who had died in a battle during our Civil War (1861 - 1865):

"We are met on a great battlefield of that war."


***** ONLY A NON-TEACHER'S OPINION *****

As bhaisahab said, in one line.

[Pedroski]

I always like Parsers answers. Please keep up the good work.

If you read Charles Dickens, which is hardly 'ancient', you will find a lot of examples of the use of 'be' come as opposed to 'have' come. German always uses 'be' with 'come'. There seems to be a correlation with verbs that can't have an object.

[salkinad]

I think that your sentence is either ill-structured or old use of English which has already disappeared

[birdeen's call]

I always like Parsers answers. Please keep up the good work.

I have probably said it many times already, but I can't help repeating after you, "TheParser, keep it up, please!"

[Xanadu]

thank you very much for your explanation.