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Have you ever seen anyone walk the streets like that?

Have you ever seen anyone walking the streets like that?

Are both the above sentences grammatically correct? Do they mean the same?

I saw him kiss her the other day.

I saw him kissing her the other day.

Are both the above sentences grammatically correct? Do they mean the same?

And I'm sorry, if the latter two sentences come off immature .-. I couldn't come up with better sentences.

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It's registering a single event vs witnessing continuous action.

Have you ever seen anyone walk the streets like that?

In other words, have you ever caught a glimpse of someone (one person, or maybe two, or a hundred, on a hundred separate occasions) walk the streets in that fashion?

Have you ever seen anyone walking the streets like that?

Have you witnessed someone, etc, and continued watching them as they walked?

I saw him kiss her the other day.

This means you definitely remember at least one kiss.

I saw him kissing her the other day.

You saw them in the act of kissing.

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