Look, feel, smell, sound, taste

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Look, feel, smell, sound, taste

• You look tired.
• The dog smells awful.
• The fish tastes delicious.

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Look, feel, smell, sound, taste

• She looks like a model.
• This fabric feels like silk.
• The cake tastes like coffee.
• I feel like playing cards tonight.

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smell of, taste of vs. smell like, taste like

• The greengrocers smells of strawberries.
• This shampoo smells like strawberries.
• This soup tastes of chicken.
• Frog tastes like chicken to me.

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Look, feel, smell, sound, taste

• He looks as if hes had a hard day.
• It smells as if somethings burning.
• It sounds as though someone is spanking the
  dog.
• It sounds like its raining. (informal)

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Seem

• Seem adjective
• You seem eager to learn new grammar!
• Seem like noun
• It seemed like a good idea.
• Seem as though/as if clause
• It seems as if every time I clean the car it
  rains!

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Seem

• Seem infinitive
• He seems to be a nice man.
• He seems to have had a hard day at work.
• He seems to be having a busy week at the office.
• Take notice there are other forms of infinitive
  besides the simple infinitive
• to write simple infinitive
• to have written perfect infinitive
• to be writing continuous infinitive
• to have been writing perfect continuous
  infinitive
• to have been written perfect passive infinitive
• and so on

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See, hear, watch, notice

• I heard the girl play a piece by Chopin.
• I heard the girl playing a piece by Chopin.
• I saw the man hit his dog.
• I saw the man hitting his dog every day.

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Verbs of the senses cant be continuous!

• I am seeing Fulvio coming down the corridor. ?
• I am hearing people talking outside the room. ?
• I can see Fulvio coming down the corridor. ?
• I can hear people talking outside the room. ?

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except, of course, if theyre not verbs of the
senses.

• Ive been hearing good things about you. ?
• (hear learn, come to know)
• I am seeing Maria tonight. ?
• (see meet)