What is the technical term for seeing things from someone else's perspective? Ask Question Asked 3 years, 10 months ago Modified 3 years, 10 months ago
As far as I know it's ungrammatical to use the verb form "seeing" when perception is involved - do you mean specifically the gerund seeing, or any use of to see? Either way, it sounds wrong to this US English speaker: we use "seeing" to mean "perceiving" all the time.
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However, I'm seeing two interpretations which are perfectly acceptable in correct English. These may not match the originally intent in the argument, but they're acceptable. Firstly, "see" can mean to determine something. "I'll see who's at the door, and I'll see whether they're here about the car." Now consider the following exchange:
They're definitely not interchangeable. If you start saying I am seeing instead of I can see, people will notice you're talking like a foreigner. I can't explain how it works grammatically, but Chandler's use of the continuous here serves to convey the question: "do you the same thing I see?" See here for a similar use of see in the present continuous.
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It felt really nice seeing all the things fall together into place. Vs It felt really nice to see all the things fall together into place. Is this just an infinite- gerund thing? Or are the mean...
(3) The debug option can be very helpful for seeing what, at first glance, looks like what a bunch of random characters does like. But this one is conventionally erroneous like the first one.
1 Seen from the helicopter, the cars on the road are as small as insects. We seeing the cars on the road from the helicopter, they are as small as insects. Are both of the sentences grammatically and semantically correct? In my opinion, the first sentence is fine, but the second one seems weird and incorrect.
How to use the present participle of the verb to see. Can I say, "I enjoy seeing new places"?
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I’m not seeing anything now would be ok for Sarah to say; the present progressive, and more importantly, the now convey the contrast between the new and the previous states of affairs. For Alex, the simple I don’t see anything would be the most natural for (A). In any event, I think it less likely that Alex would use the now at all, because the now seems to suggest a contrast about what he ...
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A: But then why do you only see / are you only seeing them a couple of times a month? Would you see this as a fixed thing and use simple present, or see it as a temporary situation and use the present continuous?
I look forward to seeing you. I look forward to meeting you. I'm looking forward to dogsledding this winter. Each of these sentences are acceptable, and use a gerund (verbal noun). You can't use other forms of the verb after the preposition to, you can't say: I'm looking forward to see you. I'm looking forward to saw you.
2: We were still seeing each other a couple of times a month The only difference is that the reference/relevance/narrative time has subtly altered. In both versions the meetings being described are in the speaker's past, but by introducing the past progressive, #2 has expanded the "potential scope" of that past. Consider...
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Idiomatically, What do you see? can also be taken to mean What are you capable of seeing? (As a human being, what do you see?) The answer could be the wavelengths of light observable by the human eye.
Strictly speaking "someone" rather than "someone else" could include yourself and it is quite permissible to say "I'm collecting this on my own behalf" so, yes, there is a difference. Most people would interpret the phrase without the word "else" in it as meaning someone other than yourself but, strictly, you should include it: "someone else's" also sounds more colloquial. I would include the ...
Closed 1 year ago. I'm looking for a word that describes someone who dislikes change even while their current situation is less than favorable and keeps things even if they are old, worn and crumbling.
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Answers without enough detail may be edited or deleted. I need a word that describes someone who advocates for harmful laws or policies; it would describe someone who writes policy without listening to the people it affects or someone who doesn't pay attention to actual effects of that policy, kind of like politically or socially tone-deaf.
To get someone do something suggests that you talked to the person and convinced or persuade them to do something - this structure has a similar meaning to get something done. finally I got my dad to change his old car. have someone do something, on the other hand, suggests that you arranged for the person to do something or caused them to do something, maybe by asking them, paying them, or ...
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This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a locum tenens {placeholder} in the absence of a superior. I don't know of any special designation for someone in a similar role who isn't a "placeholder", and it wouldn't surprise me to learn there isn't one.