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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

i think ''knew'' should be replaced with ''know'' in the following sentence

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00I think 01b01i00knew02i02b00 should be replaced with ''01b01i00know'' 02i02b00in the following sentence. Right?02br
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00I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I 01i01b01u00knew02u02b02i00); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling0-
  

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0Well, possibly to make more sense. But of course knew and who make a satisfying rhyme and it is a nonsense sort of poem. 0-

— Nona the brit

  • 0Well, possibly to make more sense.
  • But of course knew and who make a satisfying rhyme and it is a nonsense sort of poem.
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0Well, possibly to make more sense. But of course knew and who make a satisfying rhyme and it is a nonsense sort of poem. Kipling would have chosen 'knew' very deliberately; it's a little arrogant to look at it as a mistake and say another word 01u00should02u00 be substituted.0-
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0 No. I think that "knew" is in perfective aspect here.02br
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00EDIT: Sorry for missing your post, Nona. I am not right. Right? 0-
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00Nona, I'm not trying to be arrogant. I'm new to English language that's why my words don't represent my intentions accurately.02br
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00Ant_222, what do you mean by 01i00I think that "knew" is in 01b01i00perfective aspect02i02b00 here02i00?0-
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0 I mean "know" denoting an action of getting to know rather than a state of knowing or not knowing.02br
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00When did you know it? — Yesterday. Henry told me.02br
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00I am not sure it's a correct use... 0-
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01cite10Ant_22212cite10No. I think that "knew" is in perfective aspect here. EDIT: Sorry for missing your post, Nona. I am not right. Right?12blockquote
11i01b00knew02b02i00 in itself does not express aspect, only tense.0-
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01cite10Ant_22212cite10 When did you know it? — Yesterday. Henry told me. I am not sure it's a correct use...12blockquote
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00I think that "knew" is in perfective aspect here. 12blockquote
10No. It's very difficult to make "know" take on perfective aspect in English. It is almost inherently imperfective. In the perfective it is usually realized by "learn" or "find out".02br
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00 In an "as-soon-as" clause, you can force the perfective
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0 And what about this:02br
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00«But this is a complex affair, which centres on what is notoriously the most lethal question in politics: what did you know and when did you know (imperfective? — then what's the meaning?) it? And in the Ecclestone affair, timing is everything.»02br
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00what did you know and when did you know [it ] [?] 12blockquote
10 What knowledge [ did you possess / were you in possession of ] and during what period of time were you in possession of such knowledge? Yes, I'd say imperfective, although it's easy to see how you might take it for perfective, especially the second "know". What did you
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10I think that "knew" is in perfective aspect here. 22blockquote
20No. It's very difficult to make "know" take on perfective aspect in English. It is almost inherently imperfective. In the perfective it is usually realized by "learn" or "find out".12br
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