lundi 12 mai 2014

Notes on usage: Sight

View  -  Vision

 

These are all words for the area or distance that you can see from a particular position.

 

Sight the area or distance that you can see from a particular position: He looked up the street, but there was no one in sight. | Leave any valuables in your car out of sight.
View (rather formal) the area or distance that you can see from a particular position: The lake soon came into view.
Vision the area that you can see from a particular position: The couple moved outside her field of vision (=total area you can see from a particular position).

 

SIGHT, VIEW OR VISION?
View is more literary than sight or vision. It is the only word for talking about how well you can see: I didn’t have a good sight/vision of the stage. Vision must always be used with a possessive pronoun: my/his/her etc. (field of) vision. It is not used with the prepositions in, into and out of that are very frequent with sight and view: There was nobody in vision. | A tall figure came into vision.

 

PATTERNS
*in/out of sight/view
*in/within sight/view of sth
*to come into/disappear from sight/view/sb’s vision
*to come in sight/view of sb/sth
*to block sb’s view/vision
*sb’s line of sight/vision
*sb’s field of view/vision

 

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See also:

Common Phrasal Verbs Irregular Verbs List
Common Sentences Errors Frequently confused words
Common Clichés Thematic list of Idioms
Common misspellings Phrasal Verbs Particles list
Common Preposition Lista de Términos Gramaticales

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