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Lois: Oh, look at Stewie. Isn't he adorable playing with his Sesame Street phone?
Stewie: Put me through to the Pentagon.
Ernie: Do you know What sound a cow makes?
Stewie: Don't toy with me, Ernie! I've already dispatched with Mr. Hooper, I've six armed men outside Big Bird's nest, and as for Linda? It's difficult for a deaf woman to hear an assassin approach, isn't it?
Ernie: Can you count to three?
Tara2 to hear an assassin approach to hear that an assassin is approaching "hear" is a catenative verb. In this case it connects ('catenates') to the verb "approach". "see" works the same way.
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Tara2to hear an assassin approach
to hear that an assassin is approaching
"hear" is a catenative verb. In this case it connects ('catenates') to the verb "approach". "see" works the same way.
I heard a squirrel scamper up a tree.
I saw the assassin approach.
I heard the children si