Chapter: CHAPTER VIII ] Section: AM COME - HAVE COME
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AM COME - HAVE COME
"I am come" points to my being here, while "I have come" intimates that I have just arrived. When the subject is not a person, the verb to be should be used in preference to the verb to have; as, "The box is come" instead of "The box has come."
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