Timeline for Is "fish are jumping" in the song Summertime a correct grammatical construction?
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 20:38 | comment | added | TimR | @stangdon: The question has been edited, and my response was to the original version which looked like a sentence in which in summertime was a temporal phrase. That said, this idea that song lyrics are free to be ungrammatical is not one I agree with. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | stangdon | @Tᴚoɯɐuo - Given that this is song lyrics, you're probably overthinking it, though. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 11:18 | comment | added | TimR | Not my downvote. I wish the downvoter had left a reason. There is a problem either with the verb are jumping or with the verbal complement in Summertime. The verb and complement are incompatible. are jumping expresses what is happening now. in (the) summertime expresses what happens universally/generally. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 10:51 | history | answered | SovereignSun | CC BY-SA 3.0 |