Re: "I didn't know that..."

On 3/12/06, Harold Ensle <heensle@...> wrote:
> >someone else, "I didn't know she works here!"  I could, it's true, say
> >"I didn't know you/she worked here!" - that'd be that free variation I
> >mentioned.
>
> But in your last sentence, the apparent past tense is in fact
> the rarely used English subjunctive (which has the same form as
> the past).
Not for me.  I say "I didn't know he was there!"  not *"I didn't know
he were there!".  No subjunctive.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>