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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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I never knew you were so rebellious.

0What is the difference in meaning between the following sentences?02br
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01font01b00102b00: I never knew you were so rebellious.02font02br
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01font01b00202b00: I never knew you are so rebellious.02font02br
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00I believe many of you will say that sentence #1 is correct according to the rule of concordance of tenses in a certain sentence. But if we ignore the rule of concordance then 01font00do above sentences mean the same thing?02font0-
  

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0 Hi Jackson,02br 00yes, they mean the same thing, but #2 is rarely used in my opinion (maybe no native speaker would ever use it). "02br 00That's what I learned. 050010id1

— Kooyeen

  • 0 Hi Jackson,02br 00yes, they mean the same thing, but #2 is rarely used in my opinion (maybe no native speaker would ever use it).
  • "02br 00That's what I learned.
  • 050010id1
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0 Hi Jackson,02br
00yes, they mean the same thing, but #2 is rarely used in my opinion (maybe no native speaker would ever use it). I don't know why, but with some verbs like "know" and "think", the following verbs are in tense agreement with the preceding verbs.02br
00So native speakers practically always say "I didn't know you were American too!", and practically never
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