Why can't I use watching?

[Liana]

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #88 "Simple Present (5)", question 10

You can see me ......... relaxed in the newspaper pictures especially that one with the caption: ANDREW SMODLEY HANDS THE RING TO SALLY FAIRWEATHER'S FUTURE HUSBAND.'

(a) trying
(b) seeing
(c) looking
(d) watching

English Language Tests, Intermediate level

ESL/EFL Test #88 "Simple Present (5)", answer 10

You can see me looking relaxed in the newspaper pictures especially that one with the caption: ANDREW SMODLEY HANDS THE RING TO SALLY FAIRWEATHER'S FUTURE HUSBAND.

Correct answer: (c) looking

Your answer was: incorrect
You can see me watching relaxed in the newspaper pictures especially that one with the caption: ANDREW SMODLEY HANDS THE RING TO SALLY FAIRWEATHER'S FUTURE HUSBAND.
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Why I can't use watching?

Liana

[Alan]

Hi Liana,

Watching wouldn't fit here because there is no object. Looking relaxed means having the appearance of a relaxed person.

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Present Simple

[Guest]

Hi
I am now trying to translate few of your splendid tests into
Esperanto (everything for kids)
and became a bit confused with "Andrew who did hand ring to himself " Is it English joke? I mean humor.
I know No 1 imperator is seriously pissed off but maybe
somebody around ...
Jan
don't expect to much from seaman

[Zhangbaixiang]

I am confused with the "ANDREW SMODLEY HANDS THE RING TO SALLY FAIRWEATHER'S FUTURE HUSBAND" too?

Thanks for your explanation in advance.

thanks.
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[Alan]

Hi,

I don't really understand the confusion! Andrew Smodley is the best man at the wedding and it is the job of the best man to bring the ring to the ceremony and then hand it to the bridegroom (Sally's future husband).

Alan
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English as a Foreign Language
You can read my EFL story Progressive Forms

[Zhangbaixiang]

That means he hands the ring to himself? Or just another saying of he wears the ring himself.

thanks.
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I have a dream and I want to know the secret of time and universe.

[Alan]

No, no. Andrew is the best man, he isn't the bridegroom! They are two different people.

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Passive Voice

[Zhangbaixiang]

Oh, Sorry, I had always thought it was Andrew and Sally who got married. Then that means that the story never mentioned Sally's husband at all. And then another confusion comes to me: How did Sally changed Andrew or why did Andrew owe "all this" to Sally?

thanks.
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I have a dream and I want to know the secret of time and universe.

[Alan]

Hi,

I've never known one of my stories on this site to create so much confusion! I deliberately meant to mislead the reader into thinking what you thought and then the truth should be revealed at the end of the story that Andrew doesn't marry Sally. She changed him and he owed 'all this' to Sally because she had stopped him being a worrier as I described him at the beginning of the story. Hope that's clear now.

Alan
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English as a Foreign Language
You can read my EFL story Prepositions

[Annakarapet]

ALAN WHAT MEAN FAIRWEATHER?

[Alan]

Hi Annakarapet,

Please don't write your questions in capital letters and remember that when you want to know what a word means, you ask: What does this word mean? 'Fairweather' is someone's surname/family name.

Alan
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English as a Second Language
You can read my ESL story Make or Do?

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Alan,

Now I am ready with all the tests of Simple presents (5) and I've read "It never gets you anywhere" which is a very moving story. Many thanks and I am sorry that I began to do tests at the second so I didn't catch the context.
I am very grateful for your help.

Kati Svaby