State Verbs

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State Verbs 

State verbs 

- Not action / active verbs

- Cannot use 'to be' with stative verbs (Rule!)

- Not usually used with the present continuous form

• Feelings / emotions: love, hate, like, adore, want
• Senses: hear, see, feel, smell, sound 
• Thinking: forget, remember, know, understand, imagine, agree
• Belongings: own, have, belong, be, seem

Choose the correct sentence

1. At the moment, he is seeming happy.
2. He is seeming happy at the moment.
3. He happy is seeming at the moment.
4. He seems happy at the moment.

Choose the correct sentence.

1. He tasting the cake.
2. He tastes the cake.

Choose the correct sentence

1. I'm not knowing the answer.
2. I don't know the answer.
3. I'm knowing not the answer.
4. I'm not know not the answer.

Correct the mistake:
I'm wait for you at school.

Correct the mistake:
We are having a pet chicken.

Correct the mistake:
Sorry, I'm not understanding.

Correct the mistake:
Are you wanting chips sir?

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