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Christine Christie Posted 6 years ago
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Are all these sentences correct:


a) "At the restaurant, I only heard French spoken."

b) "At the restaurant, I only heard French be spoken."

c) "At the restaurant, I only heard French being spoken."

  

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You need to know the difference between 'hear + object + infinitive without to' and 'hear + object + -ing verb'. org/grammar/british-grammar/hear-see-etc-object-infinitive-or-ing

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You need to know the difference between 'hear + object + infinitive without to' and 'hear + object + -ing verb'.

Here is the link https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/hear-see-etc-object-infinitive-or-ing

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Christine Christiea) "At the restaurant, I only heard French spoken."

This one. Sentence b is unidiomatic. Sentence c is semantically disjointed.

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Christine Christie

Are all these sentences correct:


a) "At the restaurant, I only heard French spoken."

b) "At the restaurant, I only heard French be spoken."

c) "At the restaurant, I only heard French being spoken."

b) is wrong. a) is best. c) is grammatical, but 'being' is superfluous.

CJ

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