Timeline for Grammar and use of 'as we know it'
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| Jul 26, 2022 at 9:58 | answer | added | DW256 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 17, 2022 at 14:02 | comment | added | John Lawler | Yes, you can. It's a common construction, but it's not a fixed phrase, so its parts can be inflected normally. OTOH, if some particular way of doing that sounds weird to you, don't say it -- trust your internal grammar; it actually knows all the rules, even if you can't state them consciously. The way it raises a flag is to make it feel weird, so pay attention. | |
| Jul 17, 2022 at 9:56 | comment | added | sundowner | @KateBunting I see, even then, would you say You guys are different from the people I used to know? | |
| Jul 17, 2022 at 7:46 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Yes, as we know it can be inflected to suit the situation (as I knew him and so on), but I think the most natural way to express your sentence would be You are so different from the person/Tom I used to know. | |
| Jul 17, 2022 at 2:51 | history | asked | sundowner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |