Timeline for "you smiled to see it"
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| Nov 17, 2013 at 5:51 | comment | added | Listenever | @snailboat, yes thank you. I got better understanding of the structure, and I'm quite comfortable when I see it. | |
| Nov 17, 2013 at 5:10 | comment | added | user230 | @Listenever Smiled to see and smiled to think are standard English. You should have no trouble finding additional examples of each in COCA, if you wish. | |
| Nov 9, 2013 at 14:10 | vote | accept | Listenever | ||
| Nov 9, 2013 at 10:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/399114301841358848 | ||
| Nov 9, 2013 at 8:17 | answer | added | Kaz | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 8, 2013 at 16:31 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It seems to me quite a few of your questions concern the exact temporal relationships (the sequence of events) implied by particular verb forms. But English is often extremely "loose" in such areas - and as you say yourself, in this specific context the time sequence is obvious from the semantic content. Thus, I loved, you saw, you smiled represents three "consecutive" activities (as with I came, I saw, I conquered). The infinitive to see [it] is just a (more likely, here) stylistic choice over seeing. | |
| Nov 8, 2013 at 14:49 | history | edited | Listenever | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2013 at 14:39 | history | asked | Listenever | CC BY-SA 3.0 |