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Navitasan Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Ever since/tenses

Are these sentences correct:

1-Ever since I met him I know that he can't be trusted.
2-After I met him I know that he can't be trusted.

3-Ever since I met him I feel that he can't be trusted.
4-After I met him I feel that he can't be trusted.
  

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Hi, No. 1-Ever since I met him I have known that he can't be trusted. 2-After I met him I knew that he can't be trusted.

— Clive

  • Hi, No.
  • 1-Ever since I met him I have known that he can't be trusted.
  • 2-After I met him I knew that he can't be trusted.
  • 3-Ever since I met him I have felt that he can't be trusted.
  • 4-After I met him I felt that he can't be trusted.
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Hi,
No.

1-Ever since I met him I have known that he can't be trusted.
2-After I met him I knew that he can't be trusted.

3-Ever since I met him I have felt that he can't be trusted.
4-After I met him I felt that he can't be trusted.

Best wishes, Clive
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I won't say they're incorrect, but the present perfect tense, "have known," and "have felt" would be idiomatic. "To know," and to a lesser degree "to feel," are a little special semantically. Once you know something, it's automatically continuous. Feeling something is similar, but you can turn it off.

Edit. "Ever since I met him I knew he couldn't be trust
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navitasan1-Ever since I met him I know that he can't be trusted.
2-After I met him I know that he can't be trusted.

3-Ever since I met him I feel that he can't be trusted.
4-After I met him I feel that he can't be trusted
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