Is there any citation for "come" being used as a present participle? If we're thinking of expressions like "I am come", I think they're probably past participles, with "be" used where we'd use "have" today. 18:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)86.137.136.182 18:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Should there be a citation for "come" being used to create a compound noun, meaning "also having the characteristics of". Examples might include going to a school-come-gulag, or visiting a bookshop-come-café? Also spelt cum, in this sense?
thai word is spell "ma" write by มา — This unsigned comment was added by 124.157.247.211 (talk).
CGEL opines that "come" has been reanalyzed as a preposition, roughly synonymous with (deprecated template usage) by in its temporal sense. Historically, it clearly derives from the verb. If it were still viewed by writers as a verb, then it should only appear in an absolute clause, set off by commas. Though that is usually the case in edited works, it is not always the case. Also, semantically, a "let/may Christmas come" reading or any reading that keeps the form "come" (vs "comes" or some other form of the verb) does not fit current English.
I think we have the rare privilege of seeing a new preposition being born. DCDuring TALK 19:03, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
@DCDuring - I don't agree this is a preposition, even though some online dictionaries analyse it that way. I suppose it can be substituted with "by" and the overall meaning is not very different, but that doesn't mean it is a preposition. I don't know if you know the Jimmy Buffet song "Come Monday", but that's a good example of a case where the intended meaning is very much verbal: it means "when Monday arrives" not "by Monday". I myself have always understood it as a subjunctive verb, like other modern-day subjunctive uses fossilised to a certain degree. I suppose we could leave the preposition def but I would also like to add a verbal def and cross-reference them. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 20:17, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
It's a good idea to put the first name at the top for disambiguation. — This comment was unsigned.
I think as they come is an idiom --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:16, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
come close: to nearly do or reach something at several points we came close to an agreement Microsoft® Encarta® 2009
--Backinstadiums (talk) 19:13, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
c' in words such as c'mere, c'mon --Backinstadiums (talk) 00:15, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
An imperative to come to a certain area to eat. Come and get it, boys! Dinner's on the table. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Come+and+get+it!
--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:27, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
What does come historically refer to in as they come? --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:59, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
In sentences such as "Come and get your things," or "Could you come help me?" can "come" be used in cases where it doesn't really refer to a deictic center? Even if not, I think this use deserves a more direct mention, maybe as a sub-definition under "to move from further away to nearer to" : "(imperative, sometimes linked with *and*) to perform a request or command at a particular place" (and if you want/evidence supports it, you could end that with "close to the speaker" or "at the deictic center"). Etymographer (talk) 20:39, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
four years ago come Christmas, that is with a future event following as grammatical subject. --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:47, 28 February 2021 (UTC)