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Do you know this song of the Velvet Underground "I heard her call my name"?
I was wondering why it is not calling instead of call because we can suppose that it happens many times not once, so calling seems to be a better way to express this idea. So could calling work here? What is the difference between the two?
I know it is a song and a writer may or may not respect grammar rules.
Verbs of perception like see, feel, hear and notice + a pronoun as a general rule, can take a noun or gerund:
The second, by using a gerund, may imply it was more than once at the same time: "Jean, Jean, oh Jean, where are you?" However, the first is only one.
Either "call" or "calling" could be used if she called his name either once or multiple times. "Calling" is a present participle and thus connotes an ongoing activity, but "call" works for multiple instances of the activity, too.
An example:
She called me all day, but I never responded.
