sense verb + direct object + bare infinitive – English Grammar Profiler

In this post, we are looking for a list of sense verbs + pronoun + infinitive that may emphasize a complete action.

Our search starts in iWeb for:

feel|smell|taste|hear|see _P _VVI

*many of these seem like zero that clauses though.

2 SEE IT GO 3255 3 HEAR YOU SAY 3003 4 SEE IT HAPPEN 2473

5 SEE HIM GO 2290

8 SEE THEM GO 1951 9 SEE HIM GET 1755

10 SEE IT COME 1561

11 SEE HIM PLAY

1479

I don’t need to see him play.

listen

12 HEAR YOU ASK 1396 13 HEAR SOMEONE SAY 1371 14 SEE YOU GO 1262 15 HEAR HIM SAY 1239 16 SEE THEM PLAY 1047 17 SEE THEM GET 1023 18 SEE THEM COME 907 19 FEEL WE NEED 876 20 HEAR HIM SPEAK 853

21 SEE YOU SUCCEED 851 (could take ‘that’ clause)

22 HEAR THEM SAY 845 23 FEEL YOU WANT 799 24 SEE YOU GET 747 25 HEAR YOU CRY 727 26 SEE HIM TAKE 648 27 SEE THEM LIVE 617 28 SEE IT GROW 616 29 SEE THEM GROW 616 30 HEAR HER SAY 557 31 SEE IT BECOME 556 32 SEE HIM COME 555 33 HEAR ME SAY 527 34 SEE IT GET 510

35 SEE HIM PERFORM 496

1 SEE HIM PERFORM 587 2 SEEN HIM PERFORM 258 3 SAW HIM PERFORM 249 4 SEEING HIM PERFORM 122

5 SEES HIM PERFORM 13

36 SEE THEM TAKE 494 37 SEE IT WORK 477 38 SEE HIM MAKE 454 39 SEE HIM LEAVE 443

40 HEAR YOU SCREAM

434

Well, just once, I would like to hear you scream in pain.

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41 HEAR THEM TALK 431 42 FEEL I KNOW 425 43 SEE IT END 424 44 SEE IT LIKE 423 45 FEEL YOU GET 403 46 HEAR YOU LIKE 399 47 SEE THEM MAKE 393 48 HEAR YOU TALK 392 49 HEAR THEM SPEAK 375 50 HEAR HIM TALK 373

51 SEE IT CONTINUE 371

52 SEE YOU PLAY 369 53 SEE YOU LIKE 365

54 SEE THEM PERFORM 358

55 SEE IT MOVE 357

56 FEEL THEY DESERVE 353

57 HEAR YOU SPEAK 351 58 SEE YOU USE 344 59 SEE YOU MAKE 335 60 SEE HIM RETURN 319 61 SEE HIM BECOME 312 62 SEE YOU LIVE 312

63 SEE THEM SUCCEED 294

64 SEE HIM WIN 289

65 SEE IT APPEAR 288

66 SEE YOU TRY 288 67 FEEL YOU DESERVE 286 68 HEAR SOMETHING LIKE 285 69 FEEL I GET 272 70 SEE YOU TAKE 266 71 SEE THEM MOVE 262 72 HEAR HER SPEAK 261 73 SEE THEM TRY 261 74 SEE HIM GROW 258

75 SEE YOU SMILE 254

76 FEEL THEY KNOW 251 77 SEE YOU PUT 249 78 HEAR HIM TELL 246 79 SEE YOU COME 243 80 SEE THEM BECOME 239

81 SEE HIM MOVE 238

83 SEE IT TAKE 237 84 SEE THEM WIN 230 85 SEE YOU LEAVE 228 86 SEE ME GET 220 87 SEE US GET 220 88 SEE IT CHANGE 219 89 FEEL THEY WANT 218 90 SEE THEM WORK 218 91 FEEL I WANT 216 92 FEEL YOU KNOW 215 93 HEAR YOURSELF THINK 214 94 SEE IT START 213

96 SEE YOU POST 208

98 SEE US PLAY 203 99 SEE IT RETURN 197

100 SEE IT SUCCEED 197

1 HEAR PEOPLE SAY 2424 2 HEAR PEOPLE TALK 862 3 SEE PEOPLE GET 400 4 SEE PEOPLE MAKE 305 5 SEE PEOPLE COME 240

6 HEAR PEOPLE COMPLAIN 175

B1 vocabulary:

appear, complain, continue, deserve, perform, scream, smile, succeed

PELIC level 3 student

They have [a] modern city with all services, but you can see the poor every[]where, for example[,] you can see children work in the street and they don’t go to school.