Looked like
I am reading a book "Horrid Henry's Homework with my son.
"She did not look like a mum who thought life was grand.She looked like a mum on on the warpath against boys who lay on sofas all afternoon, eating crisps and watching TV.
How do we know if "looked" in "looked like a mum on the warpath..." is a stative or dynamic?
It seems stative to me but I don't why?
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"To look like X", to appear to be X, is a standard collocation and a dead giveaway for stative. A native reader senses no ambiguity at all.
- "To look like X", to appear to be X, is a standard collocation and a dead giveaway for stative.
- A native reader senses no ambiguity at all.
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"To look like X", to appear to be X, is a standard collocation and a dead giveaway for stative. A native reader senses no ambiguity at all.
0JigneshbharatiHow do we know if "looked" in "looked like a mum on the warpath..." is a stative or dynamic?
No moving parts.
A big mouse looks like a small rat.
~ A big mouse resembles a small rat.
No physical motion is happening. No action. There is no agent of action (no person or animal that uses energy to make som
0JigneshbharatiHow do we know if "looked" in "looked like a mum on the warpath..." is a stative or dynamic?It seems stative to me but I don't why?
She did not look like a mum who thought life was grand. She looked like a mum on the warpath against boys who lay on sofas all afternoon, eating crisps and watching TV.
Syntactically, we can te
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