insider.si.edu: Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees : over thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin / Lawrence Weschler
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees : over thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin / Lawrence Weschler
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...
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 ...
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.
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?