Having difficulty understanding this grammar. The N１総まとめ grammar book shows only ときている, but the 新にほんご５００問 book made by the same company also shows とくると or ときては can be used mid-sentence with the same meaning. Is that correct? Both books say ときている is used for emphasizing the previous text, and the examples show it often being followed by ので or から, but this page says it means because? I tried to look up this grammar in several other books, but I can't seem to find any information on it anywhere...
I always say, when you're stumped break it down into its component parts: と-"and; with; if" くる-"to come; to arrive; to approach, become, get, etc." おいしいときている、皆はケーキを食べた。 "And the cake turning out delicious, everybody had some." とくると:"And with (if) the cake to turn out delicious, everybody had (will have) some." ときては: And (as) for turning out delicious, everybody ate some cake."
I did some more looking and found some additional info in actual dictionaries, rather than grammar books, but it's still not really clear. Many dictionaries I looked at list emphasis or 強調 as a meaning for くる, and include とくる（と） and ときては (and sometimes ときたら) as possible forms, but they show it being used like ときたら grammar, with every example I found but one having nouns preceed the grammar. The closest thing I found to the grammar usage in the 総まとめ books was an example sentence in 新和英大辞典 under 来る definition 9 (そのことを強調する), which uses a な adjective:
日本の夏は高温の上に多湿と来ている。 Not only are Japanese summers hot, they're extremely humid. | On top of all the heat, Japanese summers are (also) incredibly humid.
"As for Japan's summers, high temperature's on top of (on top of high temperature) high humidity with arrives." In this sentence, I would take this as a straight reading, assigning と to 多湿 rather than using it with 来ている as a phrase.
The Handbook has ときているから on page 350 with three examples showing natural outcomes of characteristics. It doesn't mention plain ときている or omission/substitution of から.
It states that ときているから is "used mostly in spoken language."
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I didn't find an entry for this in any of the three Dictionary volumes.
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