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Marissko Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

see him look

Hello.
I need your help.
I can't catch the exact meaning of the bold lines in the following sentences.

1. It was strange to her to see him looking as he looked now.

2. She found him looking better than she had seen him look.

Please explain the meanings and grammatical structure.
Thank you.
  

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marissko 1. It was strange to her to see him looking as he looked now. Something seemed unusual and uncomfortable to her.

— Enoon

  • marissko 1.
  • It was strange to her to see him looking as he looked now.
  • Something seemed unusual and uncomfortable to her.
  • It was his appearance, which was different from what it had been when she saw him before.
  • "It" is the expletive "it".
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marissko1. It was strange to her to see him looking as he looked now.
Something seemed unusual and uncomfortable to her. It was his appearance, which was different from what it had been when she saw him before.

"It" is the expletive "it". The grammar of such sentences is debatable, but I'll give you my thinking. The subject really is, "to see him look
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marisskoIt was strange to her to see him looking as he looked now.
In these sentences, look means appear; have a certain appearance.

CJ
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Thank you for your explain.

In fact I really want to know about the meaning of 'see one looking'.
But after reading your answer and think over it, I could roughly understand it although not exactly.

All the same I thank you again.
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marisskothe meaning of 'see one looking'. ...

It was strange to her to see him looking as he looked now.
She found it strange that (as she could see) he [appeared / looked] as he [appeared / looked] now.

CJ
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