Homework question

[Patti Kurtz]

Without a context, it's hard, but perhaps the teachers expected it to be
past tense, as in "I knew you would do well on the math test."  The
"know" combined with "would" sounds a little odd to my ear, though not
ungrammatical.  For me, the meaning of "I know you would do well" is "If
you took the test I know you'd do well" whereas the second one "I knew
you would do well" means "You took the test and did well as I knew you
would."

Not sure if that's even close, just my take on it.

Patti Kurtz

Ed Keer wrote:

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>A friend's child was told the following sentence is
>ungrammatical:
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>I know you would do well on the math test.
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>It sounds ok to me. Any insight into what's wrong with
>this?
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>Ed
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