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Whatchadoin Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Knew

I wish I knew you then.

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Maybe if you and I met first.

Do native speakers use sentences like these in informal speech?
  

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If you're referring to the use of the second conditional instead of the intended third, then yes. I think you know this already. #2 isn't a sentence, by the way.

— RandomGuy

  • If you're referring to the use of the second conditional instead of the intended third, then yes.
  • I think you know this already.
  • #2 isn't a sentence, by the way.
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If you're referring to the use of the second conditional instead of the intended third, then yes. I think you know this already.

#2 isn't a sentence, by the way.
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I wish I had known you then. Past counterfactual - I didn't know you.
I wish I knew you better. Present counterfactual - I don't know you better.
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