Glad to see you made it out alive

[XINLAI-UE]

Hi,

I have a question about this sentence: Glad to see you made it out alive.
I know that "to see" can be followed directly by a verb, or by a verb+ing, but I have never seen a sentence like, "Glad to see you made it out alive." Do you think it is okay that "to see" is followed by a past tense form? If I say "Glad to see you make it out alive", then what is the difference between them?

Thanks for your help.


Sara: Okay, so this is the complete list of the injured and the dead? And it's the whole list?
C.O. - Yeah.
S: Thank you very much. Oh, thanks. Hey, Ron.
Ron: Dr. Tancredi. Glad to see you made it out alive.
S: Yeah, me, too. Um, question.
R: Mm-hmm.
S: Why did your department assign inmates on P.I. to do a toxic mold removal project?
R: What toxic mold project?
S: In the, uh, the crawl space in A-Wing.
R: P.I. didn't go there. We'd never assign inmates to do that.
S: Okay, sorry.
R: No problem.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by XINLAI-UE

Hi,

I have a question about this sentence: Glad to see you made it out alive.
I know that "to see" can be followed directly by a verb, or by a verb+ing, but I have never seen a sentence like, "Glad to see you made it out alive." Do you think it is okay that "to see" is followed by a past tense form? If I say "Glad to see you make it out alive", then what is the difference between them?

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There are two elisions here: '[I am] glad to see [that] you made it out alive.'

So there are two different cases, marked by the different tenses.

Glad to see you made it out alive. [Said in the de-briefing room, hours after the mission.]

Glad to see you make it out alive. [Said on the spot, as the agent crawls back through the hole in the wire fence.]

b

[XINLAI-UE]

Originally Posted by BobK

There are two elisions here: '[I am] glad to see [that] you made it out alive.'

So there are two different cases, marked by the different tenses.

Glad to see you made it out alive. [Said in the de-briefing room, hours after the mission.]

Glad to see you make it out alive. [Said on the spot, as the agent crawls back through the hole in the wire fence.]

b

Oh, yes. There is a "that" which I did not notice in this sentence.

Thank you, Bobk. I get it !