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Do you know what it is? This one is not grammatical (except for an unusual situation described below): Do you know what is it? The key to understanding this is to see that what it is is not a question. It's just the object of know. What is it? is a question, but there's only one question here, not a question within a question.
Feb 9, 2015 · How would I know how much money she makes? How would I know if your cat is psychic? You can't say "How do I know?" in this sense. The conditional mood is necessary because the question is based on an implied hypothesis which you are saying is false: you are implying that you don't know and can't know.
There are plenty of folks in the world that know some English and can understand a little if they hear it or read it but don't actually speak the language. We would say they "know a little English", but we wouldn't say "they speak a little English". –
Mar 22, 2016 · I know/play/try/do/wash you know/play/try/do/wash we know/play/try/do/wash they know/play/try/do/wash In the third person singular of all verbs (except BE and the modals), an -s is added to the first form. There may be other slight changes, such as the addition of an e before the -s, but there is always an -s ending:
May 10, 2016 · It means the same as "Do you know if she has a boyfriend?", with the only difference that the use of happen in front of the to-infinitive "to know" makes the question a polite request. You can use happen + to-infinitive, including to know, to express that something happens or exists by chance. For examples: I happen to know his brother.
If the intention is to convey that I now know something that I didn't know until about two minutes ago, neither of OP's suggestions are appropriate. 1: I can't say exactly what's wrong with Jack - I just know that I don't like him. 2: Jill says Jack is a convicted child molester - I just knew there was something wrong with him.
Jul 9, 2015 · "Nice to know you" means something quite different. You say "to meet you" after you are done meeting them. You say "to know you" after you are done knowing them. In other words, this is what you say when you are saying farewell forever: "Too bad you're moving to Texas. It was nice to know you."
Jan 18, 2017 · I know that. With the right tone of voice, this says that you know that the person is going on vacation, but simultaneously suggests that you don’t know any details, and invites him to elaborate. What’s Rude and What Isn’t. Consider this hypothetical conversation (fueled by Wikipedia’s Random article feature):
Oct 8, 2016 · keyword - You know what means and different from you know what and what do you know. I searched the keyword in Japanese without "You know what" and "What do you know". after that, I knew: "You know what" means How to use; but I did not know "What do you know" means and how to different.
Jan 31, 2019 · "May I know," used in normal conversation without some odd power disparity would absolutely be a sure fire indicator of a non-native speaker as GEdgar said above. There's nothing inherently really wrong about it. It's obviously fully understood and conveys the request unambiguously. However, I would classify it as somewhere between interesting and slightly distracting. By distracting, I mean ...
