I am sending you this message on the forum of paragraph though my question is about grammar.
I am writing this message because I have an inquiry. You see, I am currently writing a book on conjugation of irregular verbs. But I have a problem. There are some verbs which do not take the continuous form such as to mean, to know. There are other verbs which can't be conjugated in the third person (it) because they tend to have human feature like to think, to speak. I do not know what to do with these verbs. Shall I mention that they do not take 'ing' for example, or they can not be conjugated using (it)? Other verbs are mostly used in the passive form like 'to strew.' Anyway here is the list of verbs which I have problem with:
to backbite, to backside, to be, to befall, to bereave, to beseech, to beset, to bet, to bethink, to bid, to bless, to browbeat, to bust, to chide, to choose, to clap, to cleave, to colorbreed, to cost, to countershink, to crossbreed, to dare, to daydream, to disprove, to dream, to dwell, to enwind, to feel, to fling, to floodlight, to forbear, to forbid, to forecast, to gainsay, to gild, to gird, to hagride, to hamstring, to handwrite, to ken, to kneel, to know, to lade, to mean, to melt, to offset, to plead, to quit, to see, to sew, to share, to shear, to shoe, to shrive, to sightread, to slay, to slit, to smell, to sow, to speak, to spell, to spend, to spring, to stink, to strew, to string, to sublet, to swear, to sweat, to telecast, to tell, to think, to thrust, to tread, to troubleshoot, to typecast, to typeset, to understand, to waylay, to wed, to wet.
I am in need of your advice. Thank you very much in advance.
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I don't understand. g. am sewing, am betting, am bidding ??
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I don't understand.
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am sewing, am betting, am bidding ??
know does not have a continuous form because it is a single act: you either know my name or you don't.
To express a continuous form of this action, it would be learn/learning
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I don't understand. Many of your verbs do have a continous form e.g. am sewing, am betting, am bidding
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know does not have a continuous form because it is a single act: you either know my name or you don't. To express a continuous form of this action, it would be learn/learning