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Shelby Killuminati Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatically correct ?
"I know about it. I was just pretending that I didn't check up on you"
I am 90 percent sure that it's correct, but still I want to be 100 percent sure,
Thank you.
  

Top answer

Of course, there are two sentences there. " Context would tell you whether they were correct for your intended meaning. LIke "I already know" or "I knew already" may be more natural.

  • Of course, there are two sentences there.
  • " Context would tell you whether they were correct for your intended meaning.
  • LIke "I already know" or "I knew already" may be more natural.
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Of course, there are two sentences there.

They are grammatical, but I may have written it as "that I hadn't checked up on you."

Context would tell you whether they were correct for your intended meaning. LIke "I already know" or "I knew already" may be more natural.
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Here's the context. Please make me sure that it's grammatically correct.
Me:
I know about it. I was just pretending that I didn't check-up on you
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Should I have read that from the bottom up?

me: Long-lost Scarlett! How have you been?
S: I'm okay. You?
me: I'm good. haven't seen you in ages. Why did you disappear like that? Do you still play?
S: Actually, I'm on vacation.
me: Yeah, I know, but I didn't want to make it look like I'm checking up on you.

(That is a little creepy - you may want to say something
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Yea, read it from the bottom up.
I agree this sounds creepy so I will say what you have suggested me
I will say just say Yea, that's what I heard
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BarbaraPAThey are grammatical, but I may have written it as "that I hadn't checked up on you."
Oh Barb.You've gone over to the other side.
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What do you mean? Is there an error in my version?
And is there better ice cream on this side?
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I am old, school.

If I know I didn't do something, I may/ might have done it (had circumstances been different).
If there is a possibility that I did it, I may/might have done it.

Fred said no. I may/might have said yes, but nobody asked me.
I may/might have said yes; I can't remember.
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Ah, thanks.
I don't think Americans differentiate between may and might much. But your examples are helpful in showing the perceived differences.
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Actually, I don't think many speakers of BrE differentiate much between the two in the non-perfect forms.

With a sentence such as I may/might see him tomorrow, I don't think many feel nowadays that might is more uncertain than may.

In conditional sentences, might and may are now acceptable in the first, but only may works in the second (

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