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Ample Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

non continous verbs

Can someone please throw some light on non continous verbs?
It seems to confuse me to no end.
  

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You haven't told us what confuses you about them, so I can only speak in generalities: a few verbs rarely appear in continuous verb forms. ) However most or all of these can appear in continuous aspect in certain situations.

  • You haven't told us what confuses you about them, so I can only speak in generalities: a few verbs rarely appear in continuous verb forms.
  • ) However most or all of these can appear in continuous aspect in certain situations.
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You haven't told us what confuses you about them, so I can only speak in generalities: a few verbs rarely appear in continuous verb forms. Among these are verbs of perception (feel, see, smell, taste, hear), mental verbs (believe, doubt, forget, remember, hate, hope, love, feel, etc), and verbs of being or relationships (be, belong to, remain, have, resemble, etc.)

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I am sorry about the unspecific nature of the question. The tenses part of it confuses me.
For example consider the following situation;
I go to a store, see a dress over there and like it.
I obviously cannot say I am liking the dress.
Saying I like the dress also sounds odd because it would mean I have seen it before and like it .
So which form of tenses am I to use in situati
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I go to a store, see a dress over there and like it. I obviously cannot say I am liking the dress.-- Right
Saying I like the dress also sounds odd -- No it doesn't; it sound perfectly natural.
because it would mean I have seen it before and like it .-- No, it does not mean that; it means you like it at the moment.
So which form of tenses am
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Please correct the following;
You are looking beautiful.
Its looking like it is going to rain.
The soup is smelling good.
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Why don't you try to correct them first, ample? And then I'll check them for you.
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I think my sentences are correct. Dont know any other way in which I can frame them.
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You can choose to frame them in simple present.

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