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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Seen

Is it correct to use seen in this sentece?

I seen that I have you scheduled today.

or

I saw that I have you scheduled today.

When is the proper time to use seen?
  

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Anonymous I seen that I have you scheduled today. "Seen" is the past participle, and is used with some of the tenses which require auxilliary verbs. I have seen the schedule.

  • Anonymous I seen that I have you scheduled today.
  • "Seen" is the past participle, and is used with some of the tenses which require auxilliary verbs.
  • I have seen the schedule.
  • Before we contacted you, we had already seen a copy of it.
  • By now, it has probably been seen by the whole committee.
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AnonymousI seen that I have you scheduled today.

or
I saw that I have you scheduled today."Seen" is the past participle, and is used with some of the tenses which require auxilliary verbs.

I have seen the schedule.
Before we contacted you, we had already seen a copy of it.
By now, it has probably been seen by the whole commit
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AnonymousIs it correct to use seen in this sentece?
I seen that I have you scheduled today.
or
I saw that I have you scheduled today.
When is the proper time to use seen?
It is not correct to use seen like that. You need have seen if you want to use seen.

I have seen that television presentation five tim
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AnonymousI saw that I have you scheduled today.
CalifJim"I have you scheduled today" is present, so you need this:

I see that I have you scheduled today.
Hi, Jim.

I don't understand why "saw" is incorrect.
I've finally been persuaded to force learners to include the simple past reference w
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AvangiPerhaps it's "You need this" which I misunderstand.
Take "You need this" to read, "Given the lack of any further context, and therefore going by what I can only guess is the situation in which you want to use this, I advise this: ..." By advising an alternate, I don't mean to imply that the original was wrong.

Of course if my guess is wrong abo
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Thank you kindly for explaining. Your position makes sense.

I realize I'm fighting a losing battle over context and the [necessarily] isolated specimen sentence.
In some quarters, "taking things out of context" is a no-no, but here it's a necessity.

- A.

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