Timeline for Two distinct types of "could + perfect infinitive" in "don't know how someone could have known..."
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| Aug 20, 2016 at 16:55 | comment | added | Kinzle B | @all, re-edited! Hope this makes it clearer. | |
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| Aug 17, 2016 at 21:58 | comment | added | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | @KinzleB I agree that 'Would have known' vs 'could have known' is an interesting question and that it has generated much discussion, but I confess that I don't know what your question is. Can you add a sentence that begins with: "What I would like to know is...", or is the the question too complex to be distilled? | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | But how you can have imagined this misconception, and, more strange still, how you can have known our private conversation, astonishes me. I don't see anything inherently ungrammatical about that, and it's certainly true the negated form is common as muck. I think these grammarians are getting carried away with explaining idiomatic preference as "rules" | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 17:31 | comment | added | BillJ | I realise that, but I wouldn't go along with it being a free relative. I'd say the how clause is a subordinate interrogative clause; the meaning is "I don't know the answer to the question 'How could the killer have known the key code?"' | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | Kinzle B | grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/Free-Relative-Clause.htm It's how the killer could have known the key code that is the free relative clause, not the whole sentence! @BillJ | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | BillJ | What makes you think that I don’t know how the killer could have known the key code is a 'free' relative clause? | |
| Aug 17, 2016 at 17:05 | history | asked | Kinzle B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |