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Week02.1 Grammar - Stative Verbs - SimpleORContinuous

This document discusses stative verbs, which describe a state rather than an action. It provides 4 categories of stative verbs: 1) verbs of the senses like see and hear, 2) verbs of perception like know and believe, 3) verbs expressing feelings and emotions like like and hate, and 4) other verbs like be, belong, and own. While stative verbs usually don't take continuous tenses, some can when describing actions rather than states, like "thinking" meaning considering rather than believing. The document provides examples of when stative verbs can and cannot be used in continuous tenses. It also notes some verbs like look, feel, hurt, and ache can be used in both simple and continuous tenses

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Week02.1 Grammar - Stative Verbs - SimpleORContinuous

This document discusses stative verbs, which describe a state rather than an action. It provides 4 categories of stative verbs: 1) verbs of the senses like see and hear, 2) verbs of perception like know and believe, 3) verbs expressing feelings and emotions like like and hate, and 4) other verbs like be, belong, and own. While stative verbs usually don't take continuous tenses, some can when describing actions rather than states, like "thinking" meaning considering rather than believing. The document provides examples of when stative verbs can and cannot be used in continuous tenses. It also notes some verbs like look, feel, hurt, and ache can be used in both simple and continuous tenses

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English VII - Professor Martha Irene Andrade Parra

Stative Verbs
Stative verbs are verbs which describe a state rather than an action, and so do

not usually have a continuous tense. These verbs are:

01 Verbs of the senses

-see, hear, smell, taste, feel, look, sound,


02 Verbs of perception

-know, believe, understand, realise,

seem, appear, etc. remember, forget, etc.

03 Verbs which express feelings and

emotions
04 Other verbs

-be, contain, include, belong, fit, need,

-like, love, hate, enjoy, prefer, detest, matter, cost, own, want, weigh, wish,

want, etc. have, keep, etc.

Present simple or present continuous?


Many of the verbs above can also be used in continuous tenses

when they describe actions rather than states.

Present Simple Present Continuous


THINK THINK

I think she's a very good She is thinking about selling her

listener. (state: think = believe) computer. (action: think =

considering)

SEE SEE

I can see my home from up My mother is seeing an ear

here. (state: see = it is visible) specialist next week. (action:

I can see now that she was see = is meeting)

wrong for me. (state: see =

understand)

The verb enjoy can be used in continuous tenses to express specific preference.

We really enjoy staying home on Friday nights. (general preference)

BUT: I'm enjoying this novel very much. (specific preference)

NOTES: The verb look (when we refer to somebody's appearance), feel (experience a

particular emotion), hurt and ache can be used in simple or continuous tenses

with no difference in meaning.

Peter's tooth is hurting. = Peter's tooth hurts.

Sources:
Evans, V. & Edwards, L. (2007). Upstream Advanced C1. Express Publishing, p.240.

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