None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window.
I saw this sentence in the book Harry Potter. I think the sentence should be written as:
None of them noticed a large, tawny owl fluttered past the window.
None of them noticed a large, tawny owl fluttering past the window.
The first one takes "a large, tawny owl fluttered past the window." as a full clause with the past tense applied. And the second one takes fluttering as a present participle describing owl.
Did I get something wrong there?
Answer
verbs of sensation:
She saw him run infintive
She saw him running. participle
She saw he ran. reduced clause with finite verb
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