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- Know about vs. know of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Recently one of my friends told me that there is distinct difference between 'know of something' and 'know about something' expressions 'know of' is used when you have personal experience with wha
- differences - How to use know and realize correctly - English . . .
To know something is more long-term, perhaps after having realized it The first definition for know is: to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty They sound similar, but in usage to realize something is more of an "aha!" moment, while knowing something can last far longer than that
- word choice - Could you please vs Could you kindly - English . . .
I am a non-native speaker of English When communicating with a professor, would it be better to use could you kindly send me the document or could you please send me the document? I know both are
- Which is correct? Did you know? or Do you know? [closed]
Therefore, saying "did you know" asks if you have previously known something "Do" is the present tense, so saying "do you know" would ask if you currently know
- doesnt know vs dont know [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
It's not just you that doesn't know Now, according to owl purdue edu, we should use "doesn't" when the subject is singular (except when the subject is "you" or "I"), and "don't" otherwise But in the example above, I am having a hard time figuring out what exactly the subject is and whether it is singular
- etymology - Why did Old Testament scholars choose to employ to know . . .
For those of us not familiar, the verb to know once had an archaic sexual sense, often found in the Old Testament, and as illustrated in the following story found in Genesis 19: 4 But before they
- Is that a relative pronoun, a conjunction, or something else in I . . .
Know is a verb that can take a that -complement as object This object complement clause is introduced by the Complementizer that; complementizers mark subordinate clauses as subordinate
- Should I use did you know or do you know to introduce a fact?
Should I use "did you know" or "do you know" to introduce a fact? I've only seen "did you know" in action My logical deduction is that before the "question" (which is not much of a question because you're not asking for an answer), you wouldn't have been sure whether the listener'd known about what you're about to say or not
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