[Grammar] Problem with using verbs

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Would it be:
I knew it was you.
OR I knew it is you.
Is there a rule for this?....if so plzz tell me
 
Would it be:
I knew it was you.
OR I knew it is you.
Is there a rule for this?....if so plzz tell me
I knew it was you. This means I knew (then) that it was you (then).
I know it was you; Means I know (now) that it was you (then).
I know it is you; Means I know (now) that it is you (now).
I knew it is you; This is wrong.
Do you understand now?
 
yeah pretty much....and i also have problems with "had have" would u help me with that? when do we use "have had" and "had have"??
 
yeah pretty much....and i also have problems with "had have" would u help me with that? when do we use "have had" and "had have"??
Please start a new thread for a new question.

Incidentally, "Yes, thanks" might be a more polite answer than "yeah pretty much" to the question, "Do you understand now?"
 
Boy, u scare meh!! yes i understood that Mr. or Mrs....fivejedjon (whoever)
 
Boy, u scare meh!! yes i understood that Mr. or Mrs....fivejedjon (whoever)
Don't worry darlin', I'm sure his/her bark is worse than his bite!

You can use have had: I have had a good time. I have had some lunch.
But not: *I had have a good time. *I had have some lunch.

had is the past participle of have and the simple past tenseand the past subjunctive of have.

You can also write I had had a good time....... or I had had some lunch..... where ...... represents something which happened after 'a good time' or 'some lunch', for example:

I had had a good time, then I fell and broke my leg.
I had had some lunch, then I went shopping.

You can use: I had to have: I had to have my leg amputated.

This is getting gruesome, I'll stop.
 
Boy, u scare meh!! yes i understood that Mr. or Mrs....fivejedjon (whoever)

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