Robert Oppenheimer (the father of the atomic bomb): 'We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita...
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of world." What is the significance of the 'grammatical error' in "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"? This an example of an old style of present-perfect tense. Early Modern English used "to have" and "to be" as the auxiliaries for the present perfect. This usage has practically disappeared from Modern English. Examples of this conjugation can still be found in older texts: Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you. -- The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare I am come in sorrow. -- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
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