What part of speech is knew?

Knew can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. knew is a verb, past simple of know (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does knew mean?

Definitions

Verb

know - be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about; "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time"
know - have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"
know - be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt; "I know that I left the key on the table"; "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"
know - know how to do or perform something; "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"
know - have fixed in the mind; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"; "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"
know - perceive as familiar; "I know this voice!"
know - be able to distinguish, recognize as being different; "The child knows right from wrong"
know - be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"; "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"
know - know the nature or character of; "we all knew her as a big show-off"

Examples of knew

#   Sentence  
1. verb As far as George Bush knew, he and his unit could have been transferred to Vietnam.
2. verb Most of the "talking heads" on television, however, knew only that Daschle and Leahy were liberal democrats and did not know anything of Al Qaeda beyond what they read in the US newspapers.
3. verb The last I knew after you and Brent drafted this starting point for fundamental operating standards was that this was being circulated (Shona took this to do after Brent's return to Houston) for comments to all business controllers.
4. verb My concern with adding the language below is, could it be argued that not everyone knew the rate would or could apply at any point, since we just stated Topack and Needles and if they knew they might have bid a different rate??
5. verb There have been some issues with getting everything coordinated lately and I wanted to make sure that we knew who was on point.
6. verb The early days were the days of competition between Paul and his wife and John and his wife and he knew he had to compete with ugly John for the leadership of the band in front of their wives and having Yoko Ono made him aware of his lack of virility and repressed homosexuality, he grew the beard that we see in the "Let it Be" film and started to show pictures of naked women in the same film, doing every effort he could to be seen as a man....
7. verb He was trained to a harness/leash for outside time but he knew to use the litter pan inside.
8. verb If you knew what kind of "meat" they put in canned cat food you'd understand this.
9. verb I knew a cat that died in its sleep aged 21.
10. verb Since they knew our preferences, we almost always went along with their menu suggestions and were never sorry we did.
11. verb I am 21, so yeah we were both kids when we knew each other!
12. verb I knew what it was and told the guy that it wasn'ta fps.
13. verb He tried to tell me it was when I told asked him if he knew what fps stood for and he had no clue.
14. verb When I called the manager to complain, she said she KNEW the guy didn't know about curtains and that the usual lady called in sick hours earlier!
15. verb I called reception to ask if they knew the state the room was in and was told "This is a Days Inn, not the Hilton" and the receptionist then hung up on me.
Sentence  
verb
As far as George Bush knew, he and his unit could have been transferred to Vietnam.
Most of the "talking heads" on television, however, knew only that Daschle and Leahy were liberal democrats and did not know anything of Al Qaeda beyond what they read in the US newspapers.
The last I knew after you and Brent drafted this starting point for fundamental operating standards was that this was being circulated (Shona took this to do after Brent's return to Houston) for comments to all business controllers.
My concern with adding the language below is, could it be argued that not everyone knew the rate would or could apply at any point, since we just stated Topack and Needles and if they knew they might have bid a different rate??
There have been some issues with getting everything coordinated lately and I wanted to make sure that we knew who was on point.
The early days were the days of competition between Paul and his wife and John and his wife and he knew he had to compete with ugly John for the leadership of the band in front of their wives and having Yoko Ono made him aware of his lack of virility and repressed homosexuality, he grew the beard that we see in the "Let it Be" film and started to show pictures of naked women in the same film, doing every effort he could to be seen as a man....
He was trained to a harness/leash for outside time but he knew to use the litter pan inside.
If you knew what kind of "meat" they put in canned cat food you'd understand this.
I knew a cat that died in its sleep aged 21.
Since they knew our preferences, we almost always went along with their menu suggestions and were never sorry we did.
I am 21, so yeah we were both kids when we knew each other!
I knew what it was and told the guy that it wasn'ta fps.
He tried to tell me it was when I told asked him if he knew what fps stood for and he had no clue.
When I called the manager to complain, she said she KNEW the guy didn't know about curtains and that the usual lady called in sick hours earlier!
I called reception to ask if they knew the state the room was in and was told "This is a Days Inn, not the Hilton" and the receptionist then hung up on me.

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