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On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 11:54  AM, Murray McDowall wrote:

> At 08:06 PM 8/30/03 +0200, you wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> For the native English speaking...
>>
>> What´s the correct (or used) expression:
>> "here comes Chris & Marty" or
>> "here come Chris & Marty"?
>
> The latter -- [Chris + Marty] = plural.
>
> In speech you could get the former if for example only Chris was in 
> view at
> first -- "Here comes Chris ... and Marty too." would be correct in that
> context.x

or "here comes Chris, along with Marty and  friends".

Best,


Andy