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JungKim Posted 8 years ago
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That we know of yet

This https://www.moviequotesandmore.com/lady-bird-trailer-quotes/ is from the movie 'Lady Bird':

Christine McPherson: What I'd really like is to be on Math Olympiad.
Teacher: But math isn't something you're terribly strong in.
Christine McPherson: That we know of yet.

In the last line, 'that' seems to refer to the whole sentence "math isn’t something you’re terribly strong in", and 'of' seems to belong with 'know', not with 'yet'.

If so, why would you need 'of' here?

Can you leave out 'of' here, and say "That we know yet"?

Also, what does 'yet' here mean?

It seems to mean 'as yet' or 'as of yet', but I don't know if 'yet' is synonymous with either.

  

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JungKim In the last line, 'that' seems to refer to the whole sentence "math isn’t something you’re terribly strong in", and 'of' seems to belong with 'know', not with 'yet'. Right. JungKim If so, why would you need 'of' here?

— Mister Micawber

  • JungKim In the last line, 'that' seems to refer to the whole sentence "math isn’t something you’re terribly strong in", and 'of' seems to belong with 'know', not with 'yet'.
  • Right.
  • JungKim If so, why would you need 'of' here?
  • It means 'about': 'we don't know about the strength of my math'.
  • JungKim Can you leave out 'of' here, and say " [not] That we know yet"?
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JungKimIn the last line, 'that' seems to refer to the whole sentence "math isn’t something you’re terribly strong in", and 'of' seems to belong with 'know', not with 'yet'.

Right.

JungKimIf so, why would you need 'of' here?

It means 'about': 'we don't know about the strength of my math'.

JungKi
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