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See / Look / Watch

  SEE                LOOK                 WATCH

I°  See   (use eyes)   saw   seen

          When your eyes are open you do this without thinking  (a blind person is unable to see)

          With that meaning 'see' is not an action verb and can't be used in the progressive tenses

    You can see the leaning tower from here.

      The moment we saw the house, we knew that we would buy it.

2° Look (at)  to direct your eyes in order to see, generally for a short time. 

  Look! The plane is taking off.  

   They looked at the graffiti on the wall and laughed.

3° Watch  to look at something for a period of time, especially something that is changing or moving.

                  you watch a game, television, a performance, a film...

      They are watching their friends disappear into the distance.

           During their honeymoon every evening they sat and watched the sunset   

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1.
SeeLookWatchI don't know over there! There is a rainbow.

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Would you like to play again? No thanks, I will just watchseelookI don't know.

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I got the feeling that I was being watchedseenlookedI don't know.

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When I shut my eyes I can lookseewatchI don't know strange visions.

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Freddie, Phoebe! Where are you? I can't lookwatchseeI don't know you.

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Tom, lookwatchseeI don't know where you are putting your feet! There is mud on the path.

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Where is David? I sawwatchedlookedI don't know him leave a few minutes ago.

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Please seelookwatchI don't know at the clock and tell me what time it is.

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I like to go to the zoo to seelookwatchI don't know the animals when they are eating.

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There are a lot of people seeinglookingwatchingI don't know a tennis match
in the central court of Roland Garros.