Exceptions for Continuous

Submitted by Просто юзер on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 19:21

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There are several exceptions in English in using verbs in the Continuous terms. Some verbs are not used this way. Here are they:

Verbs of emotions

to wish
to desire
to want
to envy
to hate
to like
to love
to prefer
to fear
to need
to regret
to satisfy
to seem

Verbs connected with mentality

to agree
to believe
to deny
to depend (on)
to doubt
to expect
to forget
to foresee
to guess
to imagine
to know
to mean
to realize
to recognize
to remember
to respect
to seem
to suppose
to think
to understand

Verbs of fillings

to hear
to see
to taste
to smell
to sound

Verbs of possession and connection

to be
to consist
to belong
to contain
to have
to include
to possess
to own

And the fifth group

to involve
to measure
to weigh
to require

For some of this verbs there are additional exceptions and rules, but I'll post this exceptions and rules in the future as a comment to this post.

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