Jill: Hi, John, how was your weekend?
John: It was pretty quiet. We stayed home and did housework. How about you, Dr. Jill?
Jill : We had a big family dinner with my sister and her family. She’s a great cook. Everything she makes tastes so good. I love having dinner with her.
John : Oh, what did she bring to your dinner?
Jill: One thing she brought was apple cake. Here’s a picture. Doesn’t it look good?
John: It does. And you gave me an idea for some grammar we can teach today: stative verbs.
Jill: I think you can find grammar in anything, but this is especially delicious. Tell me about it!
John: You said everything your sister makes tastes good. Taste describes what we do with our sense, so it is a stative verb.
Jill: And I also said I love having a dinner with her. Love is a stative verb, too, isn’t it?
John: That’s because it shows an emotional state.
Jill: Verbs that commonly have a stative meaning include:
-verbs that show emotional states, such as love and dislike;
-verbs that describe sense perceptions, such as smell or taste;
-verbs that show existence, such as seem or look.
Jill: I remember that we should not use them in the progressive tense.
John: Right, we usually use stative verbs in the present tense. So when I saw the cake, I said, “That looks good.”
Jill: And that’s Everyday Grammar!
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