Hi
I understand the meaning if the saying Seeing is believing , but what I do not understand is its sentence structure. :shock: I mean, which part of speech is believing ?
Why not “Seeing is believed”?
Could you please give me a few examples like the sentence "Seeing is believing "?
Tom
Hi Tom
As I see it, both “-ing words” in “Seeing is believing” are gerunds, so in that sense, you could say that “Today is Sunday” is a similar structure.
Or you could look at the “Seeing is believing” structure as simply meaning “Doing this is the same as doing that.”
Here are some similarly balanced short sentences:
“To see is to believe”
– or –
“To know her is to love her”.
– or –
“Opening a spam attachment is asking for trouble.”
Amy