Homework question

[Joel S. Berson]

Or, assuming a different context, "I know you will do well on the math
test", if "you" is going to take the future test.  But I agree the "would"
is grammatical -- it just has a meaning perhaps the teacher did not expect.

At 6/17/2005 09:27 AM, you wrote:
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>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."
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>Not sure if that's even close, just my take on it.
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>Patti Kurtz
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>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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