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- grammar - When is it ok to use seeing? - English Language Learners . . .
As far as I know it's ungrammatical to use the verb form "seeing" when perception is involved - do you mean specifically the gerund seeing, or any use of to see? Either way, it sounds wrong to this US English speaker: we use "seeing" to mean "perceiving" all the time
- Is there a word in English meaning see something incorrectly?
Seems like "mistake" is kind of like the non-existing word "missee"? What about the idioms for seeing things incorrectly? Can I say "I mistaken it" or "I mistaken it for something else"?
- Difference between what do you see and what are you seeing
Idiomatically, What do you see? can also be taken to mean What are you capable of seeing? (As a human being, what do you see?) The answer could be the wavelengths of light observable by the human eye
- tense - “I just see” or “I just saw”? (Or neither?) - English Language . . .
How about if we talk about seeing sth which is still true at the time of sayng what would be the tense for the complement sentence? Ex 1) I just saw the rankings that he is no 1 in the list OR 2) I just saw the rankings that he was no 1 in the list
- The difference between having seen, having to see, and having . . .
The preposition without is followed by either a noun or a gerund (a verb + ing ending) that's why there is having in all the sentences you've written without having seen or heard of one or the other Here you can see the perfect gerund that refers to a time before that of the verb in the main clause That means: A logician hadn't seen or heard of neither the Atlantic or the Niagara before
- Looking forward to see you vs Looking forward to seeing you?
I wonder if the person can be eliminated: "looking forward to see you", this changes the meaning?
- tense - Meaning of progressive: “were seeing” vs “saw” - English . . .
2: We were still seeing each other a couple of times a month The only difference is that the reference relevance narrative time has subtly altered In both versions the meetings being described are in the speaker's past, but by introducing the past progressive, #2 has expanded the "potential scope" of that past Consider
- Its nice seeing you Is seeing a gerund here?
I would say it is, in the sense that you could write it as "Seeing you is nice", so that "seeing you" is a noun phrase Am I wrong in thinking this? Would the same principle apply to: Thank you
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