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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Using start/stop with stative verbs

Which of these sentences is correct and why? Are there any rules?

1) I'll never stop loving you.
2) I'll never stop to love you.
  

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I'll never stop loving you means that my love will last forever. I'll never stop to love you means that I'm too busy doing what I'm doing to start loving you. : stop+V+ing means discontinue the action; stop+to+V means to quit one activity to begin another)

— Philip

  • I'll never stop loving you means that my love will last forever.
  • I'll never stop to love you means that I'm too busy doing what I'm doing to start loving you.
  • : stop+V+ing means discontinue the action; stop+to+V means to quit one activity to begin another)
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I'll never stop loving you means that my love will last forever.
I'll never stop to love you means that I'm too busy doing what I'm doing to start loving you.

(Rule?: stop+V+ing means discontinue the action; stop+to+V means to quit one activity to begin another)
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What about stative verbs & that we can't add ing to them?
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Abdallah Khaled El-YaddakWhat about stative verbs & that we can't add ing to them?
You can add -ing to stative verbs. It's done all the time.

The rule you're thinking about says you can't use the stative verbs in the continuous tenses, where they require -ing after a form of be.

I have a brother. OK.
I am having a broth
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