Hasibul Alam Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

"Having known" means here?

Not Peter’s and Jamie’s, or anything: this was a group of children a long way off, chanting playground rhymes that I didn’t remember ever having known.
  

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I didn't remember ever having known those rhymes. ~ I didn't remember that I had ever known those rhymes. ~ I didn't remember that I had ever been familiar with those rhymes.

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I didn't remember ever having known those rhymes.
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I didn't remember that I had ever known those rhymes.
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I didn't remember that I had ever been familiar with those rhymes.
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I didn't remember that I had ever heard those rhymes (before).


remember can take an -ing construction. There are two possible forms.

I don't remember hearing th