Find describes the successful outcome of a search or adiscovery.
Our company hopes to find oil off the coastof Mexico.Alexander Fleming found a mold growing inhis bacteria culture.
Find out describes a change in knowledge that thesubject has about the world. First the Know describes the information that the subject hasavailable at any given time. Know is a state Copyright ©2001 The McGraw-Hill Companies. Any use is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. McGraw-Hill Higher Education is one of the many fine businesses of We found out why the pipes were corroding soquickly.We knew that there was little chance ofsuccess, but we tried the experiment anyway.Unacceptable
She is knowing three chemicals that willserve our purposes.Acceptable
She knows three chemicals that will serveour purposes.
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