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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
- 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
- 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
- seen from the helicopter VS seeing from the helicopter
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
- 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:
- 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
- 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
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