Timeline for Is "fish are jumping" in the song Summertime a correct grammatical construction?
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 20:12 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I don't think the meaning is literally "fish are jumping in the summertime". They're separate sentences. Each phrase is describing the setting. "[it is] summertime", "the livin' is easy", "Fish are jumpin'", and "the cotton is high"... They are all separate examples describing the situation, rather than fish are jumping because it is summertime and that's when they normally do it. The lyrics describe a collection of examples of good aspects of life at the moment; reasons why things aren't as bad as they might seem, so "don't you cry". | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 17:22 | comment | added | TimR | oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/fish_1 | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 16:57 | comment | added | Fabrice NEYRET | Somebody wrongly edited my post. "Summertime" is the famous jazz song. I re-edited my post and made the question more clear: my problem is that "fish" seems singular while "are" is plural. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 11:49 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 11:39 | history | edited | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2017 at 11:33 | history | answered | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |