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Disculpa, pero esta entrada está disponible sólo en English.
All these verbs are related to sight and vision
- See is the most common of the three verbs and is usually followed by an OBJECT:
They’ve seen MANY PEOPLE wearing hats.
John saw ANDREA at the party.
But it doesn’t always have an OBJECT:
I can’t see well, so I need to wear glasses.
See (meaning vision – there are other meanings of see) doesn’t usually take the progressive form, but look (at) can:
We’ve been looking at churches all day!
We’ve been seeing churches all day! - Watch is used when animals or people look at something (or something happening) over a period of time:
I’ve been watching the cricket, what have you been doing?
Last night we watched a film. - Look (at) means ‘using eyes for a particular reason.’
“I want you to look straight into my eyes.”
He wasn’t looking where he was going.
Look also refers to appearance when what you are looking at is the SUBJECT:
SHE looks great in that red dress.
THE HOUSE has been looking awful for the last few months.
So in summary I’d say that see is the most common option while look (at) and watch are both similar to each other, except that watch is used when describing actions that take place over a longer period of time.
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Just thought it might be worth posting this. An old client of mine emailed me this question and here’s what I thought.
QUESTION
If someone says “Couldn’t have gone much better” what does that mean?
Is it , “it was great”?
I understand “Couldn’t be better” but the sentence above is using the third conditional.
MY ANSWER
“Couldn’t have gone much better” means that of all the expectations you had of a particular event, it was the almost the best expectation that happened.
For eg. if you were taking an exam and you had a range of expectations, perhaps scores of 45% 55% 65% 75% 85% and after taking the exam and getting your score back you got 83%, you could say “Couldn’t have gone much better”
We also say this after interviews etc., if the interview went well and in response to the question “How did it go?”



