What is difference between me sentences? Th.

Could somebody please help? Thanks!

Once again, you're overthinking these questions. Like many of your previous threads? There's no real difference between the two sentences.

Many thanks!

Tsar is right, the difference between the two sentences is so slight it's almost negligable.

There is a very slight nuance. Watching them climb could be a snapshot of the ascent, looking up just in time to see him hop over the fence, while climbing suggests a lot more of the ascent was seen.

Again, this only suggests a difference and as such is so slight as to be negligable, and without further context you wouldn't really know either way.

A suggestion, something implied, is not as strong as something expressed, and because the nuance, and what it suggests, is so slight it could easily be negated with further context.

I saw him climb over the wall( suggests a snapshot,)

I had been watching him for a number of days and watched his ascent from start to finish. ( This sentence changes the nuance completely, it's not at all vague, it's expressed, not implied.


I saw him climbing over the wall ( suggests some duration.)

I briefly looked up and saw him climbing over the wall, a split second later he was gone. ( Again the second, expressed non vague sentence changes the nuance.)

Hope this helps, but as Tsar said, there is no real discernable difference.

Thanks, izzythepush.