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"I thought you would know" versus "I thought you knew"

asked 2018-02-21 20:09:53 -0400

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"I thought you would know" OR "I thought you knew"?

Someone showed me a photo of Seattle and said, "I thought you knew this place." But how is that different from saying, "I thought you would know this place"?

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