Guest  +  995 Wed, 18 Jun 03 05:55 PM What is proper - I seen or I saw ? Guest

	chris  +  1013 Wed, 18 Jun 03 10:01 PM The verb "to see" is an irregular verb. (past simple and past participle forms of the verb do not end in ed) The past simple form of the verb is saw (used when we want to talk about something that started in the past and also finished in the past.) For example: I saw a Ferrari yesterday, or, yesterday, I saw a Ferrari. (Ask the question when did you see the car?) Answer yesterday. + ask the question can you see the car now? Answer NO, therefore we use the past simple tense. The past participle of the verb "to see" is seen. We use this form when we use the perfect tenses (without going into any great detail we would usually use "seen" when we want to talk about something that we saw in the past without mentioning actually WHEN we saw it.) For example: I have seen a Ferrari. Ask the question "When did you see the Ferrari?" Answer we don't know but SOMETIME before now. chris Joined on Mon, Apr 7 2003 Malta Contributing Member 1,105 Verbs, Tenses, Past Simple

	Philip  +  528663 Tue, 17 Jun 08 04:12 PM Anonymous “you spellled definitely incorrectly. ” And you have an extra 'l' in the second word.  Sorry, I just couldn't help myself while approving your post in moderation. [I'm sure that 'definately' and 'grammer' are the most common spelling errors on these forums] Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,738 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen