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This paper aims to examine the types of English perception verbs and the meaning differences between their complements, [NP + bare infinitive] and [NP + -ing participle]. In Section 2, it is argued that the former type has to do with the beginning and ending of the event or state of affairs and boundness in time, while the latter conveys the meaning of progression, repetition, and unboundness in time. Section 3 subclassifies perception verbs and investigates the constraints that hold between them and their complements. It is shown that the meaning of perception verbs must be compatible with that of their complements and that temporal span of such verbs must be longer than that of the event or state perceived. In addition, volitional verbs such as listen to and watch can be said to differ from their non-volitional counterparts hear and see in that the first, unlike the second, denotes anticipated and durative actions or states.