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This morning, I was in the bathroom when I overheard my little children in a heated argument over the right way to state that one is coming to a place. Actually, the senior who is a little girl of 6 years(Basic 1) was supposed to be taken to a salon to make her hair.

Argument started when a call was put across to the hair maker to inform her that the little girl was on her way to the salon. As the lady picked the call, my daughter spoke with her and said thus: "I am on my way coming". This did not go down well with her younger brother, also a child of 4 years(Nursery 3), who immediately created a scene before her sister could even drop the phone and told her that, that English was bad, that she should rather have said "I am on way to coming there". In fact it was a heated argument between these two lads. As the argument got on, suddenly the little girl charged at the brother and reminded him that, that was the same way she reported to daddy that "James is fighting Debby", but the brother countered her, that it is wrong to say "James is fighting Debby", but instead she should have said "James is fighting with Debby".

In this heated argument was almost getting out hand, I was in the bath listening with rapt attention. I needed to intervene after getting out of the bath, but my conviction failed me as to what should be the right way to put the grammatical expressions that caused argument between my two little children. In fact when I came out, actually asked and they told me the contention, I simply told them that both of them were right and that both grammatical expressions are right at their stage and age, that they will know better as they move to next classes. I really clapped for both them, at least in a case of no winner, no loser.

Grammarians and masters of English language, kindly come in and put me through in this grammatical challenge. The sentences may appear simple, but most of us are fond of taking simple grammatical construction for granted.

So, what is the right grammar: "I am on my way to coming there" and "I am on my way coming" on one hand and "James is fighting Debby" and "James is fighting with Debby"?

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Don't derail my thread, otherwise you will receive an incurable curse. Just delete these your unwarranted posts from this thread right now, I said right now or....

You either say:" I am on my way to the salon now" OR "I am coming to the salon now"

Abujaexpress:
This morning, I was in the bathroom when I overheard my little children in a heated argument over the right way to state that one is coming to a place. Actually, the senior who is a little girl of 6 years(Basic 1) was supposed to be taken to a salon to make her hair.

Argument started when a call was put across to the hair maker to inform her that the little girl was on her way to the salon. As the lady picked the call, my daughter spoke with her and said thus: "I am on my way coming". This did not go down well with her younger brother, also a child of 4 years(Nursery 3), who immediately created a scene before her sister could even drop the phone and told her that, that English was bad, that she should rather have said "I am on way to coming there". In fact it was a heated argument between these two lads. As the argument got on, suddenly the little girl charged at the brother and reminded him that, that was the same way she reported to daddy that "James is fighting Debby", but the brother countered her, that it is wrong to say "James is fighting Debby", but instead she should have said "James is fighting with Debby".

In this heated argument was almost greeting out hand, I was in the bath listening with rapt attention. I needed to intervene after getting out of the bath, but my conviction failed me as to what should be the right way to put the grammatical expressions that caused argument between my two little children. In fact when I came out, actually asked and they told me the contention, I simply told them that both of them were right and that both grammatical expressions are right at their stage and age, that they will know better as they move to next classes. I really clapped for both them, at least in a case of no winner, no loser.

Grammarians and masters of English language, kindly come in and put me through in this grammatical challenge. The sentences may appear simple, but most of us are fond of taking simple grammatical construction for granted.

So, what is the right grammar: "I am on my way to coming there" and "I am on my way coming" on one hand and "James is fighting Debby" and "James is fighting with Debby"?

Well it's a brilliant scene to see your children engaging in such educative confrontation.

Now, I'm not a professor of English neither have I gotten any award on it but but but....
I can in all sense of correctnes, tell you that both of them are right....

Let anyone here prove otherwise with a convincing grammatical syntax be it concord rules or amalgenical rules...