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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

I'm very sick and you know (it)

Hi,
I don't know when to pun an object after "know", like "know it, know that, know this". Transitive or intransitive use? Examples:

I'm very sick and you know (it/this/that).
I'm not the kind of person who would lie, and I think you know (it/this/that).
I'm one of the best guitarists, everybody know (it/this/that).

Could someone exaplain that? Thanks in advance Emotion: smile
  

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All of your sentences here need the object, Kooyeen. As far as I can think (at the moment), know always needs an object except with the interjection: I'm getting tired of all this work, you know.

— Mister Micawber

  • All of your sentences here need the object, Kooyeen.
  • As far as I can think (at the moment), know always needs an object except with the interjection: I'm getting tired of all this work, you know.
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All of your sentences here need the object, Kooyeen. As far as I can think (at the moment), know always needs an object except with the interjection: I'm getting tired of all this work, you know.

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Also: when in this structure: I am a great guitarist, as everyone knows.

Maybe someone else knows more.
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Oh, thanks MM.
I thought of this:
- You know, MM is a teacher...
- I know. / Hmm, I don't know... / Oh, I didn't know.

I think all of those are ok and used without an object. Would you say in all other cases an object is usually required? I think I have to be careful, because I might have been using "know" incorrectly. I usually say: "I didn
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I didn't tell you because I thought you knew!

This is OK too-- it appears to me that at least one place that know cannot lack an object is in an independent clause (?)
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Mister Micawber I didn't tell you because I thought you knew!

Ooops, "knew", right.
Well, it seems complicated... I didn't tell you because I thought you knew! I am worried, and you know!"
You didn't say anything about the second "know". Is that ok as it is? In my examples above you said an object w
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KooyeenHi,
I'm one of the best guitarists, everybody know (it/this/that).

Could someone exaplain that? Thanks in advance
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I'm one of the best guitarists, everybody knows. Run-on sentence. Comma splice.
I'm one of the best guitarists, everybody knows it. Run-on sentence. Comma splice.

I'm one of the best guitarists. Everybody knows it. Correct.
I'm one of the best guitarists, as everybody knows. Correct.

CJ
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Hi,
thanks a lot, but I think there's something that isn't clear to me yet... Run on sentences are not a problem, I know what they are, but I usually don't pay attention to that "mistake" (and I just make it again, lol!). Unless I really want to write "perfectly", "formally", etc. Anyway, Jim said:

I'm one of the best guitarists. Everybody knows it. Correct.
I'm on
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but I think there's something that isn't clear to me yet... I know. Same here. Run on sentences are not a problem I know. I'm still thinking about this one.

I'm one of the best guitarists. Everybody knows it. Correct.
I'm one of the best guitarists, as everybody knows. Correct.

Can't I li
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Ah, now it's clear that it isn't clear... well, better than nothing! LOL Emotion: wink

At least I discovered thar I've been using it the
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