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user 161566
This tag is used for questions about the proper construction of sentences.
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Is it idiomatic to say, 'someone thinks about how XXX' instead of 'someone thinks XXX'?
Your feeling that the second sentence sounds weird is quite justified. It uses the wrong tense:
John thought about how it could have knocked him out instantly if it had hit him.
This is a case of "r …
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