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I am come of a race noted for vigour of fancy and ardour of passion. In this sentence, l couldnt get what " l am come of " means. İf you can help me, l would be grateful. Thanks already!
 

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I am come of a race noted for vigour of fancy and ardour of passion. In this sentence, l couldnt get what " l am come of " means. İf you can help me, l would be grateful. Thanks already!
 

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I am come of a race noted for vigour of fancy and ardour of passion. In this sentence, l couldnt get what " l am come of " means. İf you can help me, l would be grateful. Thanks already!
"I come from a race.........."
 

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Well, this sounds like a badly structured sentence to me. You would say "I come from a race ... "; but not really ".. am come of a race ...".
 

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I have merged the two duplicate threads.

Please ask a question only once.
 

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Well, this sounds like a badly structured sentence to me. You would say "I come from a race ... "; but not really ".. am come of a race ...".
"I am come of..." is a correct, if ancient, construction.
 

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I am come of a race noted for vigour of fancy and ardour of passion. In this sentence, l couldnt get what " l am come of " means. İf you can help me, l would be grateful. Thanks already!

***** 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."


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***** 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.
 

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

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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!"
 

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thank you very much for your explanation.
 
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