Different word for knows

What is another word for know?

What type of word is knows?

verb (used without object), knew, known, know·ing. to have knowledge or clear and certain perception, as of fact or truth. to be cognizant or aware, as of some fact, circumstance, or occurrence; have information, as about something.

What is the difference between know and knows?

“Know” is the plural form of the verb. “Knows” is the singular, present-tense form of the verb. I think he knows exactly what you mean.

What kind of verb is know?

know used as a verb: To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. “I know your mother, but I’ve never met your father.” To have knowledge of; to have memorised information, data, or facts about.

What is the definition of seen?

Seen is defined as something has been looked at or noticed. An example of being seen is having walked past a mirror and looked at your reflection.

Do I use was or were?

Generally, “was is used for singular objects and “were” is used for plural objects. So, you will use “was” with I, he, she and it while you will use “were” with you, we and they. There is a tip you might want to consider. Even though you are singular, you must use “were”.

Was and were in a sentence?

Was is used in the first person singular (I) and the third person singular (he, she, it). Were is used in the second person singular and plural (you, your, yours) and first and third person plural (we, they). I was driving to the park. You were drinking some water.

Are and were difference?

Since ‘are’ is in the present tense, it must be used to denote an action that is being done in the present. Its counterpart, ‘were’, is used when the subject of the sentence is plural, and the action or condition that is expressed has already been completed or the event happened in the past.

Is there were correct grammar?

1 Answer. Answer #1 is correct; use the plural verb, were, because there are multiple toys. In my house, there were many toys. If you were talking about 1 pile of toys though, you would use “was,” the singular verb, because there is 1, single pile.

Were used in a sentence?

Were sentence example. “You were very greedy,” said the girl. I don’t know where they were planning to sit. There were sparks between them from the start.

Which is correct grammatically correct if I was or if I were?

Many people use if I was and if I were interchangeably to describe a hypothetical situation. The confusion occurs because when writing in the past tense, I was is correct while I were is incorrect. However, when writing about non-realistic or hypothetical situations, if I were is the only correct choice.

Which where is were?

They are not homophones—words that have the same sounds or spellings—and their meanings and uses are quite different. “Were” (rhymes with “fur”) is a past form of the verb “to be.” “We’re” (rhymes with “fear”) is a contraction of “we are.” The adverb and conjunction “where” (rhymes with “hair”) refers to a place.

Where and were pronounced the same?

WHERE and WEAR are all pronounced the same. They are pronounced with two sounds: W-AIR. WERE Is pronounced with two sounds: W-ER. Watch this video lesson to learn these words.

Are role and roll pronounced the same way?

Roll and role are two English homophones. This means they have the same pronunciation but different definitions. Despite sharing the same sound, they have no overlap in meaning.

Is it to or too?

To is a preposition with several meanings, including “toward” and “until.” Too is an adverb that can mean “excessively” or “also.” Just to be clear: two is pronounced the same as to and too, but it can’t be used instead of either of them because it’s a number.

What is opposite of where?

Opposite of at what place. there. here. everywhere.

What is the synonym of witch?

In this page you can discover 50 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for witch, like: sorcerer, enchantress, crone, sibyl, supernatural, sorceress, sex, voodoo, charmer, pythoness and wizard.

What is a female witch?

1. “one that is credited with usually malignant supernatural powers; especially: a woman practicing usually black witchcraft often with the aid of a devil or familiar : sorceress – compare warlock” 2. “an ugly old woman: hag”

What is a female wizard called?

Wizardess

What’s the opposite of witch?

“She introduces herself as a muggle with no special ability.”…What is the opposite of witch?

OneEye, you’re absolutely right. My friend is Taiwanese. I was communicating with her over mobile phone instant messenger. After her initial answer, I sent a message asking her how «中國的文獻資料» compares with «中國文學». After thinking about it, she later responded by saying that «文學» is for poems, novels, essays, etc., and «文獻» is for records and country history information. (English is not her first language and so I’m not sure what she meant exactly when she wrote «country history information», but I am guessing she meant something along the lines of official documents.)

Regardless, I agree that it was weird that she came up with «文獻». But, here is where I think my Taiwanese friend was coming from. I think she misunderstood the word «literature» in my original sentence. She works in mobile phone tech support. Working in an IT type industry, she has probably heard the English word «literature» used more frequently to mean generically «pieces of writing or printed information on a particular subject» (definition 2 of «literature» from the online Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary http://oald8.oxfordl…nary/literature). However, the «literature» that was intended in my original sentence meant, «pieces of writing that are valued as works of art…» (excerpt of definition 1 of «literature» from the online Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary).

In the case of definition 1 of «literature» (where we are talking about written works of art), it seems to me that «文學» is the word in Chinese to use. In the case of definition 2 of «literature» (where we are talking about pieces of writing or printed information about a particular subject), it seems to me that «文獻» might be the word in Chinese to use.

The online Mandarin-English dictionary at YellowBridge.com seems to support this idea. In that online dictionary, I looked up «文獻». Although the YellowBridge dictionary listed the definition of «文獻» as «document», the last two sample sentences it listed used «文獻» to mean «literature» in the same sense as definition 2 of «literature» from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.

Here are the two sample sentences in the YellowBridge dictionary that used «文獻» in that sense of «literature»:

現有大量關於第一次世界大戰的文獻。There is now extensive literature dealing with the First World War.

我現在還不需要這些文獻，但我還是要感謝你。I don’t need the literature at present. Thank you very much all the same.

(Both the Chinese examples and their English translations are from the Mandarin-English dictionary at YellowBridge.com)

I would be happy to hear other people’s thoughts about this. Is my current understanding correct? Does anyone have anything to add?

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Also, thank you OneEye on your input of another way I could say, «Sorry, I don’t know much about Chinese literature.» 「對不起，我對中國文學不是很了解」。

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By the way, back on the topic of how to translate «know» from the sentence, «Sorry, I don’t know much about Chinese literature.» For some reason, my English language brain prefers that I use «to be familiar with/熟悉» instead of «to understand/了解». Maybe it is because I grew up in an English speaking culture, but it feels weird to me to say that I don’t understand Chinese literature when I haven’t even read much of it. Therefore, I feel like it would be better for me to say, «對不起，我對中國文學不是很熟悉» instead of «對不起，我對中國文學不是很了解». What do you think?

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Thank you all for your time and feedback. I really appreciate it.

**This post was edited to fix a typographical error.

Edited December 4, 2012 at 06:18 AM by Pegasus