Categorías
Sin categoría

Stative verbs

Probably you have some questions about the video you saw yesterday. It explained about the differences of present simple and present continuous but in the video talked about the stative verbs too.

The stative verbs refer to mental and emotional states. Stative verbs can’t be used with -ing form. It doesn´t matter if the action is happening at the moment someone is speaking instead of it we can use present simple.

Example:

I have two children (NOT I am having two children.)

The cake smells awful (NOT The cake is smalling awful)

Have and Smell are stative verbs so i didn’t use it with a present continuous form.

Exist a list of this verbs and it’s important memorize it