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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
- To see vs Seeing - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
It felt really nice seeing all the things fall together into place Vs It felt really nice to see all the things fall together into place Is this just an infinite- gerund thing? Or are the mean
- See or Seeing? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
However, I'm seeing two interpretations which are perfectly acceptable in correct English These may not match the originally intent in the argument, but they're acceptable Firstly, "see" can mean to determine something "I'll see who's at the door, and I'll see whether they're here about the car " Now consider the following exchange:
- 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?
- 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
- Which one must I use see am seeing and what is your reason?
Right now I am looking at the board I see am seeing some words on the board Would you possibly readily or simply tell me which one? And why?
- present continuous - I see vs. I am seeing in the sense of . . .
They're definitely not interchangeable If you start saying I am seeing instead of I can see, people will notice you're talking like a foreigner I can't explain how it works grammatically, but Chandler's use of the continuous here serves to convey the question: "do you the same thing I see?" See here for a similar use of see in the present continuous
- Seeing on seeing. . . difference - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
On seeing that the robber was walking at his direction slowly, he turned around, and ran for his dear life Seeing that the robber was walking at his direction slowly, he turned around, and ra
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