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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Meaning?

CalifJim
anonymousIs this the same order for my original sentence, “I knew he would’ve let you know about it.”?
1st: 'He' let 'you' know about it.
2nd: I found out that event 1 happened.

No. In this case, the speaker knows him, so the speaker knows his character. The speaker ( 'I' ) knows and has always known that 'he' is the kind of person who lets others know such things. So this knowledge precedes everything else.

0. The speaker knows what 'he' will do in this kind of circumstance.
1. 'He' lets 'you' know about it.
2. Somebody tells the speaker that 'he' has let 'you' know about it.

Later, when asked, the speaker expresses his thought that this is exactly how he thought the situation would happen:

I knew he would've let you know about it.

Embedded in this comment is this idea: If I had known the situation before it happened, I would have predicted the same outcome that actually happened.

CJ

Thank you, CJ. I really don’t want to bother you with the same questions but can you please check my understanding on this sentence real quick?

I thought he would have been a pretty good guy for the group. (But he didn’t)

It means I presumed he had been a pretty good guy for the group. Correct?

  

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anonymous I thought he would have been a pretty good guy for the group. (But he didn’t wasn't )It means I presumed he had been a pretty good guy for the group. Correct?

  • anonymous I thought he would have been a pretty good guy for the group.
  • (But he didn’t wasn't )It means I presumed he had been a pretty good guy for the group.
  • Correct?
  • I presumed he was going to be a pretty good guy for the group is a better paraphrase.
  • 'had been' doesn't seem to work for me as a good way to say it.
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anonymousI thought he would have been a pretty good guy for the group. (But he didn’t wasn't)It means I presumed he had been a pretty good guy for the group. Correct?

I presumed he was going to be a pretty good guy for the group is a better paraphrase. 'had been' doesn't seem to work for me as a good wa

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