See, Look ate, and Watch.........are they the same?

See, Look, and Watch.......are they same?

For students, one of the obstacles of study English is a difficulty of using appropriate word or diction in appropriate context or situation. Although the students have found the meaning of certain difficult English word, they frequently face a problem how to use it in the context or situation they want to explain. They face this problem because they always find a word that has many meanings in dictionary. One of the examples of this problem is the use of see, look at, and watch. Those three words basically have same meaning, the action of using eyes. They will be different when they are used based on appropriate context or situation. Here is the explanation of those three words based on the context.

See : Seeing happens because my eyes are open. It is physical reaction that we never plan to see the object. In other words, we see something or someone unintentionally. One of the examples of the use see in appropriate context is that when we wake up and we see a picture because our room is full of picture or poster.

Look at: Looking is a planned or purposeful action. Looking happens for a reason. In other words, we use term look at when we have a plan or purpose when we want to look at someone or something. We look at the clock in the bedroom because we want to know the time is one of the examples of using look at in suitable situation.

Watch: Watch and look at are same in term of planned or purposeful action. They are different in term of the duration of doing the action. Look at is a purposeful action in short time, whereas watch is purposeful action for a long time. We watch foot ball, we watch TV, and We watch parade are the examples of the use of watch in suitable context.