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    I saw your selling a bedroom set.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    I saw your selling a bedroom set.
    I saw you're selling a bedroom set. Now it's ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bhaisahab View Post
    I saw you're selling a bedroom set. Now it's ok.
    Saw is past tense verb of See
    and Selling is present continous..
    How can both coexist in a sentence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    I saw you selling a bedroom set?
    Hello,

    I am not a teacher, but if you are asking something in the past, maybe it's better to write the following sentence?

    Did + pronoun subject + infinive verb without 'to'. Or : I saw you selling ... (without question mark).

    See you soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anupumh View Post
    Saw is past tense verb of See
    and Selling is present continous..
    How can both coexist in a sentence.
    No problem.
    Like the following examples:
    I think you are happy.
    I believe you are clever.
    I thought you are intelligent.
    I saw you are selling a bedroom set.
    I saw you are painting the room.


    There is "that" which is omitted after the first verb.
    It can be put.

    I think that you are happy.
    I believe that you are clever.
    I thought that you are intelligent.
    I saw that you are selling a bedroom set.
    I saw that you are painting the room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sash2008 View Post
    No problem.
    Like the following examples:
    I think you are happy.
    I believe you are clever.
    I thought you are intelligent.
    I saw you are selling a bedroom set.
    I saw you are painting the room.


    There is "that" which is omitted after the first verb.
    It can be put.

    I think that you are happy.
    I believe that you are clever.
    I thought that you are intelligent.
    I saw that you are selling a bedroom set.
    I saw that you are painting the room.
    I saw you selling a bedroom set.

    I saw you are selling a bedroom set.

    Do both these sentences mean the same?

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    Quote Originally Posted by anupumh View Post
    I saw you selling a bedroom set.

    I saw you are selling a bedroom set.

    Do both these sentences mean the same?
    I think Yes.

    I saw you are drinking a cup of tea.
    I saw you drinking a cup of tea.
    The same meaning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sash2008 View Post
    I think Yes.

    I saw you are drinking a cup of tea.
    I saw you drinking a cup of tea.
    The same meaning.
    ok how about this sentence, what does this mean then....

    I see you are drinking a cup of tea.

    I saw you drinking a cup of tea yesterday at the canteen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anupumh View Post
    ok how about this sentence, what does this mean then....

    I see you are drinking a cup of tea.

    Now, you are drinking a cup of tea. Now, I see you drinking a cup of tea.

    I saw you drinking a cup of tea yesterday at the canteen.

    Yesterday,you drank a cup of tea. Yesterday, I saw you drinking a cup of tea.
    That's what I think.

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    Default Re: Is this sentence right?

    I saw you sell/selling a bedroom set.

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