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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?

2017年2月5日 18:50

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It's certainly literary English. Interestingly, the grammar of that phrase is a throwback to the Germanic origins of English.

2017年2月5日

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