Homework question

[Dennis R. Preston]

Could this be the prescriptivist's "sequence of tense" crap:

I knew that you would...

I know that you will...

in which the semantic distinctiveness of "I know that you would" is ignored.

dInIs

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