smoke coming from

[Hansman]

A: Your two dogs woke me up every night this week at 4 a.m.!
B: I think it's all the marijuana smoke coming from your apartment that's waking them.

I have seen this conversation and I would like to know how to understand 'coming from...'.

Is it like smoke that came from or smoke that was coming from or smoke that comes or smoke that is coming from?

 

[Tarheel]

If smoke is "coming from" some place that's where it originated. That's where it started.

 

[jutfrank]

Speaker B seems to me to be disapprovingly implying that the listener's marijuana-smoking behaviour is an ongoing thing. It has happened in the past and it will likely continue to happen in the future. Speaker B is not happy about this and would prefer it to stop.

 

[Hansman]

Thank you so much. So, do you mean that it is like '...smoke (that is) coming from..'?

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you so much. So, do you mean that it is like '...smoke (that is) coming from..'?

It's more like "the smoke that regularly comes from". The speaker isn't saying that there is smoke coming from their place right now (at the time of speaking), which is what "that is coming" would suggest.

 

[Hansman]

It's more like "the smoke that regularly comes from". The speaker isn't saying that there is smoke coming from their place right now (at the time of speaking), which is what "that is coming" would suggest.

Thank you so much.
Is it possible for something that comes to become something coming without be verbs?

 

[emsr2d2]

Thank you so much.
Is it possible for something that comes to become something coming without a "be" verbs verb?

Yes. The original sentence is grammatically correct.