Comments on: Come to pass https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/ Upgrade your English Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1545 Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:01:05 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1545 In reply to Mayara.

Exactly! Just a quick edit: “It takes about 10 years to develop a vaccine. Fortunately, that didn’t come to pass for the COVID-19 vaccines.

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By: Mayara https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1535 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:38:07 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1535 In general, it takes about 10 years to developed the vaccine. Fortunatelly, it didn’t come to pass for COVID19.

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By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1524 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:43:49 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1524 In reply to Claudio.

Yup, absolutely you can.

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By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1523 Sun, 24 Oct 2021 00:42:54 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1523 In reply to EVERSON ZIN.

“Come to pass” means “happen,” so you would not say a pandemic happens when people get a vaccine. You might say that “herd immunity will come to pass” once 70% of the population is vaccinated.

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By: Claudio https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1517 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:27:19 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1517 In reply to Jeff.

I didn’t hear this lesson. I’m going to hear now.
When I wrote, I didn’t know if could to use (come to pass) in an question

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By: EVERSON ZIN https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1516 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:46:43 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1516 The vaccine to figth COVID 19 is effective in 85% the population. Resourchers tell, when 70% or more of the population recieve this vaccine, the pandemic finnally come to pass.

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By: Jeff https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1512 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:26:28 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1512 In reply to Claudio.

Ah good example, framing it as a question. What will come to pass? What will happen? Did you hear this lesson by any chance?

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By: Claudio https://plainenglish.com/expressions/come-to-pass/#comment-1503 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 22:18:02 +0000 https://plainenglish.com/?post_type=expressions&p=11891#comment-1503 I think trash is a big problem worlwide. The population is increasingly producing more trash. The oceans are dirty, the air polution is real. Pretty soon the problem will be bigger and what will come pass?

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