"I know him only after he left the Earth".

[MeyaN]

"I know him only after he left the Earth".

Shouldn't it be "I've known him only after he left the Earth"? Also please suggest better alternatives.

Thankyou.

 

[tedmc]

Do you mean you got to know the person in some other planet? That is a weird sentence.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I would use 'knew' instead of the simple present 'know', which does not agree with the simple past 'left'.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I assume the speaker is an extraterrestrial creature.

 

[ChinaDan]

"I came to know him only after he left Earth".

or

"I came to know him only after he left the earth".

 

[Matthew Wai]

I have known him since he left Earth.

 

[Rover_KE]

What is the source of your quoted sentence, MeyaN?

 

[MeyaN]

Referring to a scholar who passed away years ago and whom I came to know about very recently.

 

[Matthew Wai]

I think he departed this life rather than left the earth.

ET should have said 'Earth' - no 'the'.

I found 'the Earth' at http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/earth_1?q=earth

 

[Rover_KE]

Referring to a scholar who passed away years ago and whom I came to know about very recently.

Thank you. That context would have been more helpful if you had given it in post #1.

 

[emsr2d2]

Had we known the context, we would have been able to tell you immediately that you should have used "know about him" not "know him". They do not mean the same thing.