Is it correct to say "She comes of a royal family"? Or should it be "She comes from a royal family"?
Both sound correct to me. Could someone explain?
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Comes of is a completely archaic expression, other than the idiom That's what comes of (doing something).– Colin FineCommented Sep 14, 2013 at 17:40
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Wouldn't it be better to say something like "She comes from royalty"?– netteCommented Dec 13, 2013 at 5:10
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My intuition is that the construction with of collocates more readily with the verb be rather than the verb come, as in, for example, ‘She is of royal blood.’ For that reason, ‘She comes from a royal family’ seems to me to be more likely.
answered Sep 14, 2013 at 9:11
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Agree entirely. “She comes of a royal family” is utterly ungrammatical to me. Commented Sep 14, 2013 at 12:51