{"id":73406,"date":"2020-03-24T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73406"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:37:46","slug":"see-english-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/see-english-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"See | English Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>See\u00a0<\/b>means\u00a0<i>perceive with one&#8217;s eye<\/i>. It can also mean\u00a0<i>understand<\/i>. With these meanings it is not used in the progressive form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can\u00a0<b>see\u00a0<\/b>a ship.<\/li>\n<li>I\u00a0<b>see\u00a0<\/b>(NOT am seeing) from his letters that he has worked here before.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018We have got a problem.\u2019 \u2018<b>I see.\u00a0<\/b>\u2019 (NOT I am seeing.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Continuous forms of see<\/h3>\n<p>When\u00a0<b>see<\/b>\u00a0means \u2018meet\u2019, \u2018interview\u2019, \u2018talk to\u2019 or \u2018go out with\u2019,\u00a0progressive forms\u00a0are possible.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\u00a0<b>is seeing\u00a0<\/b>a German girl at the moment.<\/li>\n<li>I<b>\u00a0am seeing<\/b>\u00a0the doctor tomorrow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>See\u00a0<\/b>can also be used in the progressive when we mean that somebody is imagining things that are not there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Look! There is a camel!\u2019 \u2018You\u00a0<b>are seeing\u00a0<\/b>things.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other uses<\/h3>\n<p>The expression\u00a0<b>I will see<\/b>\u00a0means\u00a0<i>I will consider the matter<\/i>.\u00a0<b>Let me see\u00a0<\/b>means\u00a0<i>give me time to think or recall<\/i>. Note that a preposition is necessary before the object in these cases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We will\u00a0<b>see about<\/b>\u00a0that soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See\u00a0means\u00a0perceive with one&#8217;s eye. It can also mean\u00a0understand. With these meanings it is not used in the progressive form. I can\u00a0see\u00a0a ship. I\u00a0see\u00a0(NOT am seeing) from his letters that he has worked here before.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2225,2223,2224],"class_list":["post-73406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-continuous-forms-of-see","tag-see","tag-seeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73407,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73406\/revisions\/73407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}