Present-Perfect: hadnt heard vs. havent heard Let's say I have just listened to a beautiful song wanted to immediately tell my friend about it Which sentence should I use? A I haven't heard a song this good for a while B I hadn't heard a
You hear but you dont listen or You listen but you dont hear? P listens to listened to X entails P hears heard X I e, if you listened to it, you heard it; and if you looked at it, you saw it Generally one uses the perceptual verb only if one can't use the volitional one that entails it The examples given in the OQ -- You look, but you don't see, for instance -- use intransitive look
The ambiguity of: see hear listen to news used to disambiguate, this being an unusual scenario 'I listened to the news' would normally be taken to refer to listening to the news on the radio (the speaker being normally sighted) 'I heard the news' would normally be taken as just a paraphrase of 'I became aware of the news' without further context
What is the word for people who deliberately listen to other peoples . . . That is an interesting word - eavesdrop The OED has references for the noun, meaning the area close to a house, where water drops from the eaves, from as early as 868 (Kentish charter) But there is no reference to the verb - to eavesdrop, meaning to stand within the eaves drop to listen to the occupants speaking, until the 17th century
meaning - Listen to music vs. listen to the music - English . . . The only difference is the definite article ('the') which means the second sentence refers to some specific music For example, as you put your iPod headphones on you might say "I am going to listen to music", meaning no particular music If you were in a park, and hear a band playing in the distance you might say "I am going to listen to the music", meaning that specific music you can hear