Is “I always found their sight relaxing” grammatical?
I ask because the sentence of this post returns 0 results in Google.
I’m a little confused. I’m a girl. Is each sentence grammatical? What is the correct alternate without answers to the question?
The river is empty, except for a group of
elderly people stretching, trotting, and doing Tai Chi. Here’s an example of a sentence in context. I really like how their sight is relaxing. I know the importance of being patient with life, but life can happen so quickly.
What are the pros of going to a temple and learning an art?
I always find looking at animals relaxing.
It’s not illegal to write this sentence “I always found their sight relaxing” as an isolated sentence although it can be considered semantically ill-formed. In the narrative you’ve posted, however, I would use a perfect tense and would respect agreement:
- “The river is empty, except for a group of elderly people stretching, trotting and doing Tai Chi.” I’ve always found their sight relaxing.
- As the river was empty, only a group of elderly people were stretching, trotting, and doing Tai Chi. I had always found their sight relaxing.
Why would you change your perspective on the world if you changed it? I was right!
‘Their sight’ is an analogy for a person’s ability to see and what they’ve seen. In all of the 98 citations for ‘their sight’ in the corpus of contemporary American English,’sight’ has this meaning.
The natural words for the original sentence are ‘the sight of them’.
No, you will be understood, but there are more idiomatic ways to express this thought. I can
see everything at once and I always find it relaxing.
In this sentence, “The sight” refers to the previous sentence, and the sentence structure is simple: I (subject) found (verb) the sight (direct object) relaxing (object complement).
I always found
the sight of them relaxing Here, there is
a more explicit reference to the previous sentence in the predicate, but the object has still “the sight. If I would just simply stare at the object, I would make a mental note about it”. I
always found their
sight relax the possessive has been
applied to “sight” suggests that you are talking about the tai chi practicions’ vision, not your view of them. X ==> most people will understand what you mean. In real usage, most people will understand what you mean. What is the meaning of the word “the sight” and not “their sight”.? I’ve
always found her eyesight
depressing. ” Consider a similar sentence.
In that example, you are clearly talking about a aspect of her. Now:
I always found her sight depressing.
Does her eyesight look different than theirs from a person with poor eyesight? I really find her sad.
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The problem with the word their. I loved sight of cats and as
Chiris Sunami offers that I found the meaning that I was often at peace / relaxing in bed.
People not own sight? It differs from the concept of their image which is a characteristic that the described actually possess. Is sight more important for being seen? How do you tell an image to be, which may be yours or theirs?
Is this construction confusing logically?
