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.
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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:
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.
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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...
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1 Seen from the helicopter, the cars on the road are as small as insects. We seeing the cars on the road from the helicopter, they are as small as insects. Are both of the sentences grammatically and semantically correct? In my opinion, the first sentence is fine, but the second one seems weird and incorrect.
How to use the present participle of the verb to see. Can I say, "I enjoy seeing new places"?
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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 ...
What is the technical term for seeing things from someone else's perspective? Ask Question Asked 3 years, 10 months ago Modified 3 years, 10 months ago
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A: But then why do you only see / are you only seeing them a couple of times a month? Would you see this as a fixed thing and use simple present, or see it as a temporary situation and use the present continuous?
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.
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.
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...
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...
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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"?
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