Also great is?

[Torsten]

Hi,

What do you make of the following sentence -- to me, it seems that at least the word order is not "very English":

Also great is the 'Webhead' session.

Thanks a lot,
Torsten
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[Jamie (K)]

[Jamie (K)]

Torsten, here's a music video, and you can hear this word order:

"Three o'clock in the morning, here am I."


It sounds like Germlish, but it's really English.

[Torsten]

Hi Jamie,

Thanks a lot for that -- what would be the difference between "Three o'clock in the morning, here am I." and "Three o'clock in the morning, here I am"? To me, "... here I am" sounds as if it should be followed by something like "... here I am lonesome again." Is that right?
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[Alan]

Hi Torsten,

Just another thought on this. 'Here am I' is used with a sense of surprise and irony with the idea of:' Just look at me!'

For example I could be explaining something to you about the German language and then I would realise that is a bit presumptuous on my part and I would say: 'Here am I telling you something about your language!'

Alan
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[Jamie (K)]

Generally, at least for Americans, there seems to be no difference between "here am I" and "here I am" when they're some kind of exclamation. However, if someone asked you, "Where are you?" the answer would have to be, "Here I am." "Here am I," wouldn't work in that situation.