Saturday, January 28, 2017

grammaticality - To see vs Seeing


It felt really nice seeing all the things fall together into place.


Vs


It felt really nice to see all the things fall together into place.


Is this just an infinite- gerund thing ? Or are the meanings of the two sentences different ?



Answer




In your example



It felt really nice seeing all the things fall together into place.
It felt really nice to see all the things fall together into place.



There is no real difference in meaning or nuance.


However, the usual expression is



It felt really nice seeing things fall into place.
It felt really nice to see things fall into place.




since "all" and "together" is automatically implied and is redundant.


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