A wrong sentence?

[nq:1]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why?[/nq]
The sentence is grammatically correct but
unidiomatic in British/American contexts.
Those speakers would usually say:
"We have known each other since high school."
But in South Asia the original sentence may
be common. There is a region

Don Phillipson had it:
[nq:2]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why?[/nq]
[nq:1]The sentence is grammatically correct but unidiomatic in British/American contexts. Those speakers would usually say: "We have known each other ... be common. There is a regional preference there for the past continuous ten

[nq:1]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why? A Korean learner[/nq]
The COED gives one (archaic) definition of "to know" as "having sexual intercourse with". Whilst "We have known each other..." implies mere familiarity, does "We have been knowing each other since high school" perhaps suggest that they hav

Naawoo schrieb:
[nq:1]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why?[/nq]
The present perfect progressive is usually used if you want to place stress on teh action.
The present perfect simple is used when you want to stress the aspects of state or result.
"to know" seems to me to be a state, so I'd us

[nq:1]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why? A Korean learner[/nq]
Hi AKL
In this context 'know' is a "stative verb"; you either 'know' somebody or you don't, it's not possible to switch the state on or off. In the same way you can't say:-
* "We have been liking each other since we met'
but yo

[nq:1]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why? A Korean learner[/nq]
It's not exactly ungrammatical, but it's not the way a native speaker of English would say it.
Using the -ing form after a perfect tense ("have been" or "had been") seems, on a quick rummage through my brain, to be reserved for verbs t

[nq:2]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why? A Korean learner[/nq]
Be sure to read Omrud's post on this matter to understand how DB gets to his starting point.
[nq:1]The COED gives one (archaic) definition of "to know" as "having sexual intercourse with". Whilst "We have known each other..." ... since

Thanks, everyone, for your posts.
I learn far more English from you than I can from dictionaries.

[nq:1]Don Phillipson had it:[/nq]
[nq:2]The sentence is grammatically correct but unidiomatic in British/American contexts. ... past continuous tense of the verb (been knowing for known.)[/nq]
[nq:1]It seems to me (with no authority) that you can only use the continuos form for verbs which describe an ... are wrong: I've been having red hair for the last 20 years. She's been knowing me sin

[nq:2]We have been knowing each other since high school. Is this sentence gramatically wrong? If so, anyone please kindly explain why? A Korean learner[/nq]
[nq:1]Hi AKL In this context 'know' is a "stative verb"; you either 'know' somebody or you don't, it's not possible to switch the state on or off.[/nq]
I can't agree with this statement at all. "Know" is one of the slipperiest words in