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Hi, please share your knowledge.

"I saw people dressed up as popular movie characters, such as Shrek, Dracula, and Spiderman."

That is in the text book. Now when do we use the following?

1. "I saw people being dressed up as popular movie characters, such as Shrek, Dracula, and Spiderman."

2. "I saw that people dressed up as popular movie characters, such as Shrek, Dracula, and Spiderman."

Thank you

[tob55]

[drcrazy]

In any case, #2 is incorrect. "I saw that people had dressed up as popular movie characters....

[ontheway]

[some waygug-in]

I saw people being dressed up .... etc.

This one means that you actually watched the action of the people getting

their costumes on.


The other two just relate that the people were already wearing them.


There is no difference between the first and third sentence.

The "that" is implied in the first sentence.

Of course, context could make them different.

[transmogrifier]

Actually, the first sentence is a relative clause (well, a reduced form):

I saw people (who were) dressed up.....

And the third one is a noun clause:

I saw that people dressed up.....

Now, the sentence

"I see people dressed up...." is possible as a noun clause, with the "I see" used in a figurative sense (i.e., you use it in a way to emphasize that you have noticed something) , but I don't think that construction works in past tense

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[ontheway]

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[some waygug-in]

On second thought;


The sentence in the book is just noting a past event.

The "being" sentence is a past progressive, meaning the speaker is observing the action in progression as it happened in the past.


The last one notes that people dressed up in certain costumes.

(as opposed to other costumes)

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