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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

As if

He talk to me as if he had known everything. Correct?
  

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Anonymous He talk to me as if he had known everything. Correct? No.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous He talk to me as if he had known everything.
  • Correct?
  • No.
  • He talk s to me as if he knows everything.
  • OR He talk s to me as if he knew everything.
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Anonymous He talk to me as if he had known everything. Correct?
No.

He talks to me as if he knows everything. OR He talks to me as if he knew everything.

CJ
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Typo. It was,''he talked to me as if he had knowN everything'. Is it still incorrect?
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AnonymousTypo. It was,''he talked to me as if he had knowN everything'. Is it still incorrect?
It's grammatically correct, but there's no good reason for 'had known'. Native speakers would choose 'knew'.

He talked to me as if he knew everything.

CJ
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He talked to me as if he had known everything. Meaning that he didn't know anything; unreal condition. Am I right?
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Anonymousunreal condition
"Real" and "unreal" applies more properly to "if". "asif" works quite differently. It's equivalent to "like".
AnonymousHe talked to me as if he had known everything. Meaning that he didn't know anything
I don't agree that it means that he didn't know anything. If you take it as a counterfa
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Anonymousunreal condition
"Real" and "unreal" applies more properly to "if". "as if" works quite differently. It's equivalent to "like".
AnonymousHe talked to me as if he had known everything. Meaning that he didn't know anything
I don't agree that it means that he didn't know anything. If you take it as a counterf
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Anonymous He talk to me as if he had known everything. Correct?
Not a native speaker but I have studied and used English in the US for 35 years. What I have observed is that many learners tend to misuse perfect tense. CJ already made it clear. Idiomatically speaking, when we are engaged in an "as if " context, it is idiomatically taken as an unreal scenario. L
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I agree with you but, Let's say my friend Joe had a good job but he was not rich. However, when he was around ladies, he talies extravagantly and acts as if he had been a CEO of a company. With scenarios like this, Is it still incorrect to use past perfect???
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AnonymousHe talks extravagantly and acts as if he had been a CEO of a company.
This sentence is possible, but it's not useful in the typical scenario in which this sort of thing is said.

He talks (now) as if he was/were a CEO (now, as he talks).
He talks (now) as if he had been a CEO (at som
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I am so sorry. it was 'talked' not 'talks'.

I agree with you but, Let's say my friend Joe had a good job but he was not rich. However, when he was around ladies, he talked extravagantly and acted as if he had been a CEO of a company. With scenarios like this, Is it still incorrect to use past perfect???
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