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(nonstandard, often used by non-native speakers) simple past and past participle of know.
Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.
I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep.
"If I'd knowed she was going to do it I'd never have signed that there partnership she smoodged me into signing[.]"
And it ain't no use in a-turning on yer light babe: the light I never knowed.
[Carla Jean, to Chigurh about to kill her:] I knowed you was crazy when I seen you settin there, she said. I knowed exactly what was in store for me. Even if I couldnt of said it. [sic]
Use knowed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Knowed means (nonstandard, often used by non-native speakers) simple past and past participle of know.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.
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