Основы теории английского языка. Листунова Е.И. - 90 стр.

                       Accusative with the Participle
      1. With verbs expressing physical or mental perception, wish,
etc., the construction «Accusative with the Partici ple» may be used:
      I saw the children (them) playing in the garden. The reltion be-
tween the noun (in the common case) or the pronoun (in the objec-
tive case) and the participle is that of secondary subject and secondary
predicate (the children playing — «êàê äåòè èãðàëè â ñàäó»). The
syntactical function of this construction is that of a complex object:
      ...Soames saw Bosinney watching her and smiling to himself
(Galsworthy). In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming...
(Hemingway). He found her sitting at the breakfast-table... (Hardy). ...I
note some neighbours looking at my mother, and at me, and whisper-
ing (Dickens). ...I strolled in here and found the place deserted (Dick-
ens). «I want my photograph taken,» I said (Leacock). «I want this
typed, if you please,» said Lally (Coppard). In the perfect calm that had
fallen, I heard breakers murmuring softly upon the beach (Gissing).
      The verb to listen is followed by a prepositional «Accusative with
the Partici ple»:
      He listened to his uncle talking to him... (Hemingway). She
listened to her father going round the house... (Greene).
      2. The construction «Accusative with the Partici ple» is rendered
in Russian by a subordinate object clause:
      ...He did not wish it mentioned (Galsworthy). = Îí íå õîòåë,
÷òîáû îá ýòîì óïîìèíàëîñü.
      3. With verbs expressing physical perceptions (to hear, to see, to
feel, etc) the «Accusative with the Partici ple» and the «Accusative
with the Infinitive» may be used. The difference between these two
constructions is as follows: the infinitive merely states the fact of an
action taking place: /saw him walk along the street. — ß âèäåë, ÷òî
îí øeë ïî óëèöå; the partici ple views the action in its progress: /saw
him walking along the street. — ß âèäåë, êàê îí øeë ïî óëèöå.
      She heard the door closing (Galsworthy) (Accusative with the
Partici ple). I’ve often heard him tell the tale (Jerome) (Accusative
with the Infinitive). She liked to watch him doing things however
commonplace (Mazo de la Roche). He watched her ring the bell, he
watched the maid come in (Galsworthy). He could see the tiny trout
moving round and round the stones... (Galsworthy). Old Jolyon watch-
ing from his corner saw his brother’s face change, and the brooding,
worried look deepen on it (Galsworthy).

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