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?
5 feb 2017 18:50
Risposte · 3
1
It's certainly literary English. Interestingly, the grammar of that phrase is a throwback to the Germanic origins of English.
5 febbraio 2017
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Jan de Boer
Competenze linguistiche
Cinese (mandarino), Olandese, Inglese, Coreano
Lingua di apprendimento
Cinese (mandarino), Inglese, Coreano
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