5 exercises — practise the fixed concessive phrase "come what may".
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Which sentence correctly uses the fixed phrase "come what may" without altering its internal word order?
"The team committed to the release date, come what may" correctly preserves the fixed, archaic subjunctive word order "come what may". Options B, C, and D all rearrange or substitute words within the fixed phrase, which is not permitted since it is a frozen idiom.
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Which sentence correctly places "come what may" at the start of a sentence, followed by a comma before the main clause?
"Come what may, the on-call rotation will keep the service running" correctly opens with the fixed phrase, followed by a comma and standard subject-verb order in the main clause. Option B omits the required comma. Option C wrongly inverts the main clause. Option D scrambles the fixed phrase.
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Which sentence correctly uses "come what may" to concede that outcomes are uncertain, before stating an unconditional commitment?
"Come what may with the acquisition, the engineering team will keep shipping features on schedule" correctly keeps "come what may" intact, with the added prepositional phrase "with the acquisition" placed after it. Options B, C, and D all insert the extra phrase in the middle of the fixed idiom, breaking it.
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "come what may" (unconditional commitment) from "whatever happens" without redundantly combining both?
"Come what may, the backup job runs every night at midnight" uses the fixed phrase cleanly on its own. Option B redundantly stacks a near-synonymous phrase alongside it. Options C and D both incorrectly blend words from the two separate expressions into one broken phrase.
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Which sentence correctly uses "come what may" as a closing adverbial after a full independent clause describing a policy?
"The security team will disclose critical vulnerabilities within ninety days, come what may" correctly closes the sentence with the unaltered fixed phrase. Option B reorders the words. Option C wrongly inflects "may" as if it were a regular verb. Option D wrongly changes "come" to the gerund "coming".