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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
for all i knew
In the example:
Quirrell snapped his fingers. Ropes sprang out of thin air and wrapped themselves tightly around Harry.
"You're too nosy to live, Potter. Scurrying around the school on Halloween like that, for all I knew you'd seen me coming to look at what was guarding the Stone."
Dictionaries say ‘for all I know’ is a phrase. Then why does the example use ‘knew’ instead of ‘know’?
Quirrell snapped his fingers. Ropes sprang out of thin air and wrapped themselves tightly around Harry.
"You're too nosy to live, Potter. Scurrying around the school on Halloween like that, for all I knew you'd seen me coming to look at what was guarding the Stone."
Dictionaries say ‘for all I know’ is a phrase. Then why does the example use ‘knew’ instead of ‘know’?
Top answer
It is not a fixed phrase: it can take different verb tenses.
- It is not a fixed phrase: it can take different verb tenses.
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It is not a fixed phrase: it can take different verb tenses.
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