Timeline for Use of “es” to anticipate a following clause
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 8:06 | comment | added | Matt | The textbook does say that there are "no hard or fast rules" and so I'm not very surprised that there are no clear-cut answers to my question. It's just frustrating that the information in the text-book isn't enough to answer the exercise (and further, actually seems to contradict the provided answers!). Thanks for your comments. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 7:57 | vote | accept | Matt | ||
| Dec 15, 2015 at 10:43 | comment | added | chirlu | Yes, grammars seem to be wary of this subject, too. :) – My personal feeling regarding these two examples is exactly the opposite of @M.Zuberbühler’s. I agree with Em1 that Ich habe es schon gewußt, … is acceptable; I would even more likely use es with different but similar verbs such as ahnen (Ich habe es schon geahnt, …). | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 10:30 | comment | added | M.Zuberbühler |
To me, the sentence Ich habe es schon gewusst, dass sounds way worse than Ich habe abgelehnt, mit ihr in die Schweiz zu fahren.
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| Dec 15, 2015 at 10:24 | history | answered | Em1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |