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"Everyone hail to the pumpkin song" Why "hail" and not "hails"?
There is a song with such words
"Everyone hail to the pumpkin song"
Why "hail" and not "hails"?
Actually "everyone" is singular, isn't it?
http://www.jooov.net/text/2191808/Panic-This_is_Helloween.htmls
This Is Halloween
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
4 Thg 03 2016 14:44
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I wouldn't take this song, which looks a bit tongue in cheek, as a model of perfect English! I don't really think that sentence makes sense as it stands. You could take "hail" as an imperative verb, in which case there is no final "-s", but then the "to" doesn't work, because "hail" is a transitive verb that doesn't need a preposition.
A more commonly found expression is "all hail", either on its own, or as a greeting ("All hail the king!"). It's rather archaic and only used in a jocular fashion now as a fixed expression. It's one of these expressions that got fossilized as its own word, like "goodbye" or something, but I think grammatically, "hail" would originally have been a noun rather than a verb, and "all" would have been an adjective. Also note the poem and now US presidential anthem "Hail to the chief", where "hail" again looks like a noun. (Note that if you use "hail" as an imperative verb, it would lose the "to": "Hail the chief!")
Coming back to your song, I suspect that someone heard "All hail" and either deliberately or unwittingly reinterpreted "All" as a pronoun rather than an adjective, substituted "everyone" as a different pronoun with similar meaning but without the adjectival function. Then they had to use "hail" as a verb rather than as a noun, but then got confused with the "to", or they just threw in some random syllables to make the thing scan.
Just a guess, and probably more analysis than it really deserves!
4 tháng 3 năm 2016
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The verb is in the base form because it's an imperative, like 'Everybody come here!' or 'Everybody listen to this!'
4 tháng 3 năm 2016
Повелительное? Не подумал об этом...
А порядок слов правильный?
Разве при повелительном наклонении не должно было быть hail на первом месте?
Hail everyboy..?
4 tháng 3 năm 2016
Повелительное наклонение.
4 tháng 3 năm 2016
Yes, 'hails' would be grammatically correct as 'everyone' is an indefinite pronoun and is singular.
However, 'hail' in this context is still correct, as it is used here to create a sense of immediate urgency, a call in the present tense for people to call out (i.e. 'hail') the 'Pumpkin Song.'
Examples:
Everyone, hail your leaders! Hail their glories and achievements! (A politician might say this when speaking to a crowd)
Everyone hail to the greatest sportsman of all time! (A sports announcer might say this)
Hope this helped!
4 tháng 3 năm 2016
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