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Anon f8r Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

I heard him say / said....?

I understand that normally we say 'I heard him say...' because 'say' is a bare infinitive. I just wonder if there is any chance that we may say 'I heard him said...'.
  

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' because 'say' is a bare infinitive. '. Not with the same meaning, no.

— Clive

  • ' because 'say' is a bare infinitive.
  • '.
  • Not with the same meaning, no.
  • But you could say eg I heard him said by Mary to be stupid.
  • This means Mary said he was stupid.
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Hi,
I understand that normally we say 'I heard him say...' because 'say' is a bare infinitive. I just wonder if there is any chance that we may say 'I heard him said...'.
Not with the same meaning, no.

But you could say
eg I heard him said by Mary to be stupid.
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Thanks Clive. I have never heard of that before.
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Hi,

Here are a few relative examples from Google -

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Thanks again, Clive. You have been very helpful every time I have problems on Egnlish grammar. I do appreciate that.

I have never seen sentences like the example you have cited earlier 'I heard him said by Mary to be stupid'. You mentioned that it is not common English. I guess that is why I, a non-native speaker, had never heard of it.

These additional examples you have here a
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Hi,

Here's the idea.

Tom said 'Job, you are perfect'.

Job was said to be perfect by Tom.

I heard Job said to be perfect by Tom.
I h
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I see.
Thank you very much.
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