Use of たこと with te-form verbs

Question

I've come across the following sentence

叫んでたことを知ってたよ。

I know that you can do past tense verbs + こと but I've never seen te-form verbs + たこと. So what does it mean using te-form in this case?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '21 at 00:36

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たこと is nonsensical. It is not a word that I know of. (タコとエビ makes sense but consists of three words. Just a facetious aside)

叫んでいたことを知っていたよ -> 叫んでたことを知ってたよ

Please see

answered Mar 23 '21 at 00:36

Eddie Kal

Gotcha. So it's basically the te form + いる in past tense. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks! – user6332430 Mar 23 '21 at 00:39

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