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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Perception verbs

1. He had been seen to open the gate.
2. A black cat had been seen to run from the kitchen before she arrived.

What's wrong with these sentences?
  

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Nothing that I can see.

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4 Answers
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Nothing that I can see.
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One of my friends claim that only progressive here is right.
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I think it is like:

I saw him run away.
I saw him running away.

Fivejedjon?

Tom
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Mr. TomI saw him run away.I saw him running away.
I understand it like this:

A<-------------->B (run - the whole stretch of AB)

A>------------running------------>B (running - I saw him running between two points (A and B).)
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