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Blueblooded65 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Using past verbs for adjectives
Which one is right?
I was being too shy to come here.
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I was too shy to come here.
I was being too shy to come here.
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I was too shy to come here.
Top answer
I was too shy to come here.
- I was too shy to come here.
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Yes.
The stative verb "be" is used in the progressive only the case that it means "behaving."
The child is being shy, hiding behind its mother's skirts.
The stative verb "be" is used in the progressive only the case that it means "behaving."
The child is being shy, hiding behind its mother's skirts.
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