Jan de Boer
Is this correct English.
From a novel:
How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?
I thought it should be:
What do they do there?
Feb 5, 2017 6:50 PM
Answers · 3
1
It's certainly literary English. Interestingly, the grammar of that phrase is a throwback to the Germanic origins of English.
February 5, 2017
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