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Fire1 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Smiled to see

Olivia tried to get him up at eight, but he went back to sleep, and at nine, but he slept until ten-oh-five, and woke then only because he was ravenously hungry. Olivia made him pancakes and smiled to see him gobble them down. From : Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

Is "smiled to see" correct English?
Does this expression mean the same thing as "smiled upon seeing" ?
  

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fire1 Is "smiled to see" correct English? Yes. It even appears prominently in an English nursery rhyme (a poem for children).

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  • fire1 Is "smiled to see" correct English?
  • Yes.
  • It even appears prominently in an English nursery rhyme (a poem for children).
  • Hey Diddle Diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon.
  • The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon .
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fire1Is "smiled to see" correct English?

Yes. It even appears prominently in an English nursery rhyme (a poem for children).

Hey Diddle Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoo

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