Don't want seeing - gerund or participle I
Aswad's song:
"Don’t turn around, I don’t want you seeing me crying".
Interested in the don’t want you seeing part. I know how irregular and infrequent it is, but I'm having difficulty classifying seeing as a verbal: should it be seen as a gerund or a present participle?
Thanks in advance,
YETY
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1. I don’t want you seeing me crying. 2.
- 1.
- I don’t want you seeing me crying.
- 2.
- I don’t want you to see me crying.
- Your terminology is quite confusing.
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1. I don’t want you seeing me crying.
2. I don’t want you to see me crying.
Your terminology is quite confusing. Just call the 2 underlined verb forms above a non-finite verb (present participle, infinitive) in a non-finite (participial, infinitive) clause. The function of the clause is the complement of the verb "want."
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