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Koji from Japan Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

See+S+V

I typed the sentence (a) on the site called Grammarly, and they say, “Grammarly ran hundreds of checks on your text and found no writing issues.” Are they right? I think (a) is wrong and (b) is correct.


(a) They say he is a good tennis player, but I have never seen he is playing tennis.

(b) ..., but I have never seen him playing tennis.

  

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Your hunch is correct: (a) is wrong, in this context. However... 1) There is a construction like (a) that is correct in a different context: I saw [that] he was playing tennis so I didn't interrupt him.

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  • Your hunch is correct: (a) is wrong, in this context.
  • However...
  • 1) There is a construction like (a) that is correct in a different context: I saw [that] he was playing tennis so I didn't interrupt him.
  • 2) Some careful writers might prefer some changes to (b) too, as an improvement rather than a required correction.
  • Change the order of the two clauses: I've never seen him play tennis, but they/people say he's very good at it.
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Your hunch is correct: (a) is wrong, in this context. However...

1) There is a construction like (a) that is correct in a different context:

I saw [that] he was playing tennis so I didn't interrupt him.

2) Some careful writers might prefer some changes to (b) too, as an improvement rather than a required correction.

Change the order of the two clauses:

I've ne

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Koji from JapanI typed the sentence (a) on the site called Grammarly, and they say, “Grammarly ran hundreds of checks on your text and found no writing issues.” Are they right?

Grammarly is a hoax.

Koji from JapanI think (a) is wrong and (b) is correct.

They are both wrong. You are trying to say "They say he is a g

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Koji from Japan

I typed the sentence (a) on the site called Grammarly, and they say, “Grammarly ran hundreds of checks on your text and found no writing issues.” Are they right? [We can take their word for it that they did run the checks, and they didn't find any issues, so I suppose this is a "yes". But did they come to the correct conc

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Whether this helps satisfy your immediate need to understand "right vs wrong" in the examples you give, I'm not sure. But in the long run you wiil need to come to understand that verbs have both tense (past or present, mainly) and aspect (complete/whole or in progress/incomplete, mainly).

"I saw him eat the hotdog."

Implies from start to finish.

(I saw the complete

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