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BarbaraPA Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Stative verbs - I am thinking that...
Hi all,
I got a question from someone about stative verbs. Here is how a Web site I found described them: Stative verbs usually refer to a state or condition which is quite static or unchanging. (http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/stat.htm )
This site went on to say: Note that we CANNOT use these verbs in the continuous (progressive) forms, or as the person who asked me the question said, the -ing form.
Some of the verbs listed as static verbs are: love, hate, like, see, hear, sound, think (meaning "have an opinion")
First, I'd like to ask people who actually teach this how you present this to your students. (As I've said before, I'm a writer, not a teacher, so this is new territory for me.)
Second, I'd like to give my own opinion. I think part of the problem arises from the assumption that the situation described by this verb is, in fact, unchanging. Someone can love someone today and not next month, someone can believe something with all her heart one day and have it disproven the next. And so when you use the present continuous, you are emphasizing that you think this status is likely to change.
I am thinking that I'd like to stay home for dinner... but that may change if you tell me which restaurant you are thinking about going to.
Don't talk to me right now! I am hating you right now for what you said last night. Talk to me tomorrow when I have calmed down.
[During a sound check] No, I can't hear you... oh yes...yes, now I am hearing you loud and clear.
I got a question from someone about stative verbs. Here is how a Web site I found described them: Stative verbs usually refer to a state or condition which is quite static or unchanging. (http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/stat.htm )
This site went on to say: Note that we CANNOT use these verbs in the continuous (progressive) forms, or as the person who asked me the question said, the -ing form.
Some of the verbs listed as static verbs are: love, hate, like, see, hear, sound, think (meaning "have an opinion")
First, I'd like to ask people who actually teach this how you present this to your students. (As I've said before, I'm a writer, not a teacher, so this is new territory for me.)
Second, I'd like to give my own opinion. I think part of the problem arises from the assumption that the situation described by this verb is, in fact, unchanging. Someone can love someone today and not next month, someone can believe something with all her heart one day and have it disproven the next. And so when you use the present continuous, you are emphasizing that you think this status is likely to change.
I am thinking that I'd like to stay home for dinner... but that may change if you tell me which restaurant you are thinking about going to.
Don't talk to me right now! I am hating you right now for what you said last night. Talk to me tomorrow when I have calmed down.
[During a sound check] No, I can't hear you... oh yes...yes, now I am hearing you loud and clear.
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You may want to see these threads elsewhere:
Stative verbs in the progressive form
http://tinyurl.com/mkra6
Stative verbs and progressive
http://tinyurl.com/mdhje
understand/understanding
Stative verbs in the progressive form
http://tinyurl.com/mkra6
Stative verbs and progressive
http://tinyurl.com/mdhje
understand/understanding
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Hi, GG!
I actually teach that kind of things to students.
First, I try to make them understand how they cannot make some things change by sheer willpower: you love someone, you can't help it. You remember or forget things: you can't help it either. You see, youh hear, it means you're not blind or deaf, etc, etc...
Second, I do agree with you they can be used in th
I actually teach that kind of things to students.
First, I try to make them understand how they cannot make some things change by sheer willpower: you love someone, you can't help it. You remember or forget things: you can't help it either. You see, youh hear, it means you're not blind or deaf, etc, etc...
Second, I do agree with you they can be used in th
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