In standard English, it’s “I’ve seen” not “I’ve saw.” The helping verb “have” (abbreviated here to “’ve”) requires “seen.” In the simple past (no helping verb), the expression is “I saw,” not “I seen.” “I’ve seen a lot of ugly cars, but when I saw that old beat-up Rambler I couldn’t believe my eyes.”
Is it I just seen or saw?
You can say either “I just saw” (past simple) or “I’ve just seen” (present perfect); there isn’t much difference in meaning between them, since in any case, “just” fixes the time of the event to the recent past. There’s a slight difference in emphasis, but in most cases, expressions like: “I just saw the movie.”
Why is I seen incorrect grammar?
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And although we sometimes hear “I seen” in colloquial speech, it’s never proper grammar. Saw is the past tense of the verb see. It usually comes immediately after nouns or pronouns. I saw Mark walking his dog yesterday.
Should I say I saw or seen?
Saw is the past tense form of “see.” Saw can be used by itself, without a helping verb. You saw me. I saw that movie. Seen is the past participle form of “see.” Seen requires a helper verb, such as “have.”
Why do people say I seen?
Why do so many people say “I seen”? The verb “to see” is pretty easy to conjugate. Thank you for letting me get that off my chest. The influence of nonstandard dialects, some of which use “seen” as the simple past and the past participle—no “saw”, is far-reaching and prevalent.
What is the meaning of I saw you?
I saw you) you mean that the action you are talking about is finished, that it only belongs to the past. You must use this tense if you put expressions like yesterday, a month ago, in 1990 etc. into the sentence.
How do you use seen?
The word seen is the past participle of the verb, to see. Usually, the word seen is used together with the word have, has, or had. example: I had seen that boy many times before. Sometimes the word have, has, or had is not next to the word seen in the sentence.
Did you see or saw?
“Did you see me yesterday?” is grammatically correct. “Did you saw yesterday” is absolutely wrong and “Did you see me yesterday” would be wrong if you don’t put an question mark at the end of the sentence.
Did he see or saw?
Saw has two different meanings… one is the past tense of the verb “to see” and the other one is a noun meaning a tool. However that noun became the verb to describe the action of the tool. Robert is correct in saying “Did you saw” is grammatically incorrect.
Is seen appropriate?
“Seen” is proper grammar when used to form the perfect aspect: “seen” is the past participle of the verb “to see,” and
Is it never seen or never saw?
Prescriptively speaking, only the first form is correct. In this case, you would want to use the indicative present perfect to express that it is a movie that you have not seen even once. You need to use “have” as an auxiliary verb and the past participle of the verb “to see”, which is “seen”.
Is saw a past tense?
Saw is the past tense of see.
Is seen present tense?
Seen is the past participle of the verb see, and it is used to form the perfect tenses: present perfect, past perfect, etc.
Has seen Meaning?
Has seen means that the event (seeing) started and ended at least once before now. This statement compares the past to the present. The event happened at Time A, it is now Time B and we are talking about the present (Time B).
What verb tense is have seen?
( I have seen) is in present perfect. ( I had seen ) is in past perfect. Present perfect tense is used to express the indefinite past, recently completed,etc.
What is the difference between I have seen and I had seen?
( I have seen) is in present perfect. ( I had seen ) is in past perfect. Present perfect tense is used to express the indefinite past, recently completed,etc.
