See | English Usage
See means perceive with one’s eye. It can also mean understand. With these meanings it is not used in the progressive form. I can see a ship. I see (NOT am seeing) from his letters that he has worked here before. ‘We have got a problem.’ ‘I see. ’ (NOT I am seeing.) Continuous forms of see When see means ‘meet’, ‘interview’, ‘talk to’ or …
