With Great Speed??

[tathagat]

Hi,
The following Ad on Ten Sports for a Bike Race put me in confusion :

With great Speed "comes" greak risks

I tried to invert the sentence and read it as: Great Risks come with great speed

Hence I feel "come" is the correct usage!

Need your inputs! Thanks,

[esledge]

This would be straight-forward if the "with" were following the verb, as in your inverted sentence.

Great risks come with great speed. (plural sub-verb)
Great speed comes with great risk. (singular sub-verb)

Both sentences are of this form: Subject-Verb-Adverbial Modifier.

On the sign you saw, the sentence is of this form: Adverbial Modifier-Verb-Subject, so I believe you are right. It should read "With great speed come great risks."

I had to convince myself though, so I made up a similar one.
Out of the cave come thousands of bats. (correct: bats come out of the cave.)
Out of the cave comes thousands of bats (incorrect: bats comes out of the cave. "cave comes" is just an ear-tricker...the sign with "great speed comes" was even trickier to the ear, as speed and risk are equal ideas.)