Know about vs. know of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange To me it seems like 'know about' is used in every situation and the use of 'know of' is mostly limited to 'not that I know of' expression Short google search seems to support my point of view, there are articles named '10 things I know about journalism' where person is speaking from the experience and not that many encounters of 'know of
Grammar and use of as we know it - English Language Usage Stack . . . [the building [as [we know it]]] The comparative clause has a meaning close to: We know it to be this way This is not a set phrase, so all the words can inflect or be swapped out depending on the context the buildings as we know them the building as we knew it the building as I knew it the building as he imagined it etc
american english - what is formal way to ask may we know why this . . . Also, you have to take into context the type of scenario It sometimes pays to be a little more forceful if the situation calls for, so you could also say things like: "The public deserves to know how and why this has happened ", or "There are many unanswered questions as to how and why this happened "
Usage of the phrase you dont know what you dont know We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know , but in essence I expect OP means Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns" - by which time most of the audience had given up trying to follow him, and were just sniggering
“I know“ or “I do know” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I know If we want to have an emphatic version of these sentences, we need to insert the dummy auxiliary DO This is the same auxiliary we use to make questions and negatives in the present and past simple Although in writing we cannot hear the stress, we know that the sentence is emphatic because it has an auxiliary verb: I do study hard
grammar - When to use know and knows - English Language Usage Stack . . . It is the same as any other verb, we put an 's' at the end when we're talking about a singular noun, e g drink: He drinks coffee every morning; They drink too much when they get together on weekends Therefore, since 'ones' is plural, we use know: "The ones who are included know better" Hope this helps
When is to a preposition and when the infinitive marker? I know that giving rather strange rules which demand quite different analyses of similar-looking constructions can seem worrying bewildering infuriating Perhaps if we look at near-paraphrases it will help a little (perhaps not): 2 I look forward to seeing you
Difference between already know and have already known When we use the word already with the present perfect, we are usually referring to a completed action (which has present relevance): I have already cooked dinner She has gone already But knowing cannot be regarded as a completed action in the same sense It denotes a present or past state So you cannot say:
grammar - Is know not grammatically correct? - English Language . . . Subject to the usual caveats regarding Google NGrams (basically, that they are often misused, are riddled with inaccuracies, and are almost always open to interpretation and dispute), here is a fairly unsurprising graph of know not vs do not know It appears that "know not" began to be eclipsed by "I do not know" by the middle of the 19th century