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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
- Looking forward to see you vs Looking forward to seeing you?
I look forward to seeing you I look forward to meeting you I'm looking forward to dogsledding this winter Each of these sentences are acceptable, and use a gerund (verbal noun) You can't use other forms of the verb after the preposition to, you can't say: I'm looking forward to see you I'm looking forward to saw you
- 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
- present continuous - Im not seeing I dont see - English Language . . .
I’m not seeing anything now would be ok for Sarah to say; the present progressive, and more importantly, the now convey the contrast between the new and the previous states of affairs For Alex, the simple I don’t see anything would be the most natural for (A) In any event, I think it less likely that Alex would use the now at all, because the now seems to suggest a contrast about what he
- 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:
- sentence construction - Is it correct to say l enjoy seeing places . . .
How to use the present participle of the verb to see Can I say, quot;I enjoy seeing new places quot;?
- 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
- 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
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