2014年2月21日 · I saw him eat the whole plate of pasta. He ate everything that was on the plate. I saw him finish it. I saw him eating the whole plate of pasta. I saw how he was eating from a plate full of pasta. But I'm not sure whether he ate everything or not. I didn't see him finish it.

2021年2月4日 · Definitely don't reflect that sequence with an answer like I saw him last on Thursday. That version went out with the Victorians - today, it's always I last saw him on Thursday . – FumbleFingers

2019年7月7日 · I saw him doing his homework. I saw him to do his homework. Not so long ago, I would have thought that the second sentence is incorrect, but I stummbled upon this sentence: When a person is under stress, the chest may be seen to heave and contract rapidly. If the author used the ing ending of heave without to there, would change the meaning ...

2014年3月22日 · I see him means, usually, exactly the same thing as I am seeing him—so we use the simpler form, saw. But language evolves, and people discover new uses for existing forms. Over the last century or so English has developed two …

I haven't seen him. means, essentially, I have not seen him recently. I didn't see him. means, I did not see him at some particular time. When the "particular time" is recently, the two can be used almost interchangeably: "Have you seen Bob around?" "No, I haven't seen him." "Did you see Bob just walk by here?" "No, I didn't see him."

2020年12月28日 · For the last time implies some finality. Typically it implies you will never see him again. It could also mean you saw him several times, and the person is asking about the last of those encounters, with the emphasis on how that was the last of those meetings, and not about the fact that you haven't seen him since then.

2015年2月7日 · I did see him at the party yesterday. Here you affirmatively emphasized your point. But what if in the same situation you want to say you didn't see him there. Then it'd be, I didn't see him at the party yesterday. (Here 'didn't' does not denote any emphasis on the statement. it is just a plain negative statement)

2020年6月16日 · (1) I did not see him yesterday. (2) I had not seen him yesterday. Do they both mean exactly the same thing? Should (1) be chosen (as it almost always is, except for third conditionals) because it is simpler, in a sense? EDIT: what I think the sentences mean is "at no point in time in yesterday did I see him". Am I wrong?

2016年9月2日 · I watched him climbing over the fence. This means at the moment you watched him, the act of climbing was still in progress. Compared to: I watched him climb over the fence. This view the action as a signal point without a beginning or end. This distinction is typically called the imperfective vs perfective aspect.

2023年2月12日 · In expressions like this, “as an adult” modifies “see”; it is effectively an adverb. But in the OP’s question, the phrase is not being use that way at all. The first time we see him as an adult, he marauds through a village, “As an adult” is modifying “him”. We could write sentences like the following to make it clearer: