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In the subtitles for the first episode of Code Geass, a character asks:

> 代理人のご到着かな

Maybe there is a grammer point that I don't understand, but shouldnt this be:

> 代理人のが到着かな

Meaning something like: as for 代理人 (the substitute), 到着 (the arrival) is here,
isn't it?

instead though there is a ご where I expect a が. Is this slang maybe? Or a
grammer point I don't know?
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Translation of: 代理人のご到着かな?
の here is the possessive marker, not the nominalizer; ご is an honorific. かな
adds the sense of wondering.

> 代理人のご到着かな

> I wonder whether is that the arrival of the representative.

代理人 must be someone important or esteemed or who should be respected, thus the
use of the honorific: ご到着

Without further context, it's a bit more difficult to say much more.

代理人のが到着かな doesn't make any sense grammatically. If you wanted to make 代理人 the
subject of a verb, they could have said

> 代理人が到着したかな

> I wonder did the representative arrive?

You can't use the honorific prefix here.

I'm not entirely sure how to form a suitable honorific here. I'm used to
hearing

> まもなく到着いたします

But that would not be suitable here since いたす is humble. (You hear this
expression over the loud speaker in the train station for example.)

I suppose it might be

> ご到着になりました

resulting in

> 代理人がご到着になりましたかな

Some feedback on this last point might be nice. Keigo is not my forte. I
understand it usually when I hear it (assuming it's not over the top), but
it's passive knowledge, not active for me.
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