The phrase "found it serious" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express that someone considers a situation to be serious, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "After reviewing the situation, I found it serious and decided to take action."
Alternatives: "considered it serious" or "deemed it serious."
It requires the audience to pose for an evening as undercover agents and I found it serious and challenging rather than, as I feared it might be, a titillating role-playing game.
The Illustrated London News's critic predicted, "audiences will be riven" and the Observer's found it "serious debate, intelligently and infectiously conducted", even though "Mr Greene must as one of the Faith come down on the side of the priest".
My tweet about Conway was unambiguous; either Carlson also found it trivial, in which case he shouldn't be covering it, or he found it serious and relevant, in which case he should investigate whether my prescription for the media's handling of Conway is likely to be followed by the media institutions I was critiquing and if not, why not.
"I find it serious and amazing".
I found it too serious – maybe that's why I got into dolls.
Only one of didn't like it because they found it just too serious.
I found it informative and serious, particularly on the depressing state of cycling.
Take crime as just one example: on the doorsteps Labour found it had a serious problem.
But the investigation by a House Science and Technology subcommittee found it crippled by serious design flaws, management blunders and runaway contractors.
Rather, the court found, it "is a serious intrusion upon the sanctity of the person, which may inflict great indignity and arouse strong resentment, and it is not to be undertaken lightly".
These herbs are in no way a panacea: another study, financed by a different branch of the N.I.H. and Pfizer, which makes a St. John's Wort extract, recently found it useless for serious depression.
