I used below sentence and someone told me that it is grammatically incorrect, but I cannot find the grammatical error in the sentence and that person won't tell me. Context is that right now I am seeing a man standing somewhere, so I just told below sentence:
I am seeing a man standing there.
Could an English grammar please help me figure out the error.
Best Answer
Strictly speaking, there is no problem with the grammar of that sentence. It fails on semantic grounds.
The verb to look expresses an action. We call these dynamic verbs. The verb to see (when used as a verb of perception) expresses a situation. We call these stative verbs. This semantic distinction has nothing to do with grammar and very little to do with a word's definition.
Many native speakers rarely use a present continuous construction with a stative verb.
As an expression of perception, to see is generally stative. As an expression of romantic involvement, to see is dynamic. We tend to interpret "I see someone" in the perceptive sense, but "I'm seeing someone" in the romantic sense.