To me it seems like 'know about' is used in every situation and the use of 'know of' is mostly limited to 'not that I know of' expression. Short google search seems to support my point of view, there are articles named '10 things I know about journalism' where person is speaking from the experience and not that many encounters of 'know of ...

2017年7月18日 · My business partner, who is a Native English speaker, used "know on" in the email. The sentence is: Now they has found out the reason why they kept asking for the delay, it turns out he know on of the their competitive units called . I am not sure why he used "on".

2013年1月29日 · We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

2013年10月7日 · When your trusted consultant says "I don't know what to do" during a critical incident, (s)he could actually be making the problem worse. Also-- I answered the original question from a different (and I thought interesting) perspective; whether you like the answer is …

No - I don't know what the 26th brightest star in the constellation of Rigel is called. That's a known unknown (to me). A question I know has an answer, which answer I do not know. But OP is saying that he doesn't know what the next snarl-up will be (but he's confident there will be a near-inexhaustible supply).

2010年9月25日 · "I know that it is true" becomes "I know it is true." I simply omit the word "that" and it still works. "That that is true" becomes "That which is true" or simply, "The truth." I do this not because it is grammatically incorrect, but because it is more aesthetically pleasing. The overuse of the word "that" is a hallmark of lazy speech.

2013年9月27日 · As an example, a housing developer may know from past experience that homes facing the waterfront have been preferred. (In the past, it has been the orientation of choice.) Knowing this would lead the developer to conclude that new homes built facing a waterfront would be preferable.

2013年2月9日 · I know that giving rather strange rules which demand quite different analyses of similar-looking constructions can seem worrying / bewildering / infuriating. Perhaps if we look at near-paraphrases it will help a little (perhaps not): 2. I look forward to seeing you.

2024年2月17日 · Does anyone know any rule or pseudo-rule that works to find out when each of the following terms should be used? Using: completely vs in full vs totally vs entirely. I assume they are not completely interchangeable. Some kind of heuristic rules would allow foreign English speakers to know which one to use in many different sentences.

I'm hard-of-hearing, so when I read, I pronounce things phonetically because I don't hear a lot of soft sounds (like /sh/). To my surprise over the years, I've been continuously corrected on words ...