The Grammarphobia Blog: On ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ (opens in new tab)

Q: Why is the present tense, not the past, used in this sentence: “I hear you’re leaving the country”? And why are “see” and “hear” now dynamic, not stative, on TV news? Grammar books say you can’t use progressive tenses with stative verbs, but I often hear reporters say things like “We are seeing a […] The post On ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ first...