<![CDATA["Here comes the bride."]]>"Here comes the bride." "Down came the rain." Ever notice these phrases are backward, with the verb before the subject?

It goes all the way back to Old English. And it never works with pronouns: "Here comes John," but not "Here comes he."

The best part is that we follow this "no pronoun" rule without even realizing it.

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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/20874dfc-880f-4cad-839c-a5653991b503/here-comes-the-bride.RSS for NodeSun, 25 Oct 2026 01:26:23 GMTThu, 15 Oct 2026 19:03:03 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "Here comes the bride." on Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:13:29 GMT]]>@grammargirl As a not-native but pretty proficient English speaker, I'd be inclined to accept / use "Here comes he" in the right context - after all, it's not all that different from, say, "no stranger [to X] is he" or "this is he" in terms of cadence & understandability. I know there's no verb in those but I don't see any reason why verbs should be special in this kind of sentence construction 😁

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://helvede.net/users/jwcph/statuses/117446987565730087https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://helvede.net/users/jwcph/statuses/117446987565730087Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:13:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Here comes the bride." on Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:52:53 GMT]]>@grammargirl Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/mekki/statuses/117446670620938196https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/mekki/statuses/117446670620938196Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:52:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to "Here comes the bride." on Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:18:39 GMT]]>@grammargirl Eftsoons his hand dropp'd he

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/johncomic/statuses/117446536026569248https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/johncomic/statuses/117446536026569248Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:18:39 GMT