See Somebody DO , See Somebody DOING something
This is a bit confusing for some students of ESL, or English as a Second Language. Well, let's discuss it the simplest possible way.
When we see somebody DO something,
this means we saw the action from the beginning to the end.
Example:
I saw him cook ramen. This simply
means that from the beginning of the cooking process to the end of the cooking
process, I witnessed everything.)
But:
I saw him cooking ramen. (This means
that at that particular time when I saw him, he was in the middle of an action,
it was an ongoing action. I did not see the action from the beginning to the
end, I just saw a part of it.)
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