Here is a comprehensive list of Stative verbs: to adore to fit to please to agree to hate to possess to appear (seem) to have (possession) to promise to appreciate to hear to realise to be to imagine to recognize to believe to include to remember to belong to to involve to resemble to concern to know to satisfy to […]
Read moreStative verbs are verbs with no continuous form. They generally refer to the following groups of verbs: 1. Possession I have brown hair (not I’m having a brown hair). I own a car (not I’m owning a car). This computer belongs to John (not this computer is belonging to John). He possesses at least four houses (not he is possessing […]
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The sixth time we use the present perfect simple is when we talk about how long something has been happening and we are using stative verbs. Stative verbs have no continuous form and so we can’t say “I have been liking Bob Dylan for 20 years” even though it is an action which started in the past and is continuing. […]
Read moreEddie Vedder – Society – Into the Wild Level: B1 (Intermediate) – American English Practise stative verbs with this Eddie Vedder song. Glossary “keeping score“: a mental record of whether you are winning or losing an imaginary game
Read moreThe Beatles, Fool on the Hill Level: B1 (Intermediate) Practise stative verbs with this Beatles song. Glossary “head in a cloud“: day-dreaming and not thinking about real life
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