Spotted a grammar mistake while watching Crime Watch. What’s the mistake?
Crime Watch does a great job educating the public on law and order in Singapore, but it should get a new transcriber. (See photo in previous post)
The error: I saw him took.
Correct: I saw him take.
After verbs of perception (see watch, listen, hear, feel, observe, notice, etc., we use a BARE infinitive, which is really the present tense version of the word.
see/hear/verbs of perception + object + bare infinitive
E.G.
I felt him shake my body
I saw the man hit the woman
I heard them shout vulgarities