As learners of English,we meet new things in English,for example,Dynamic and stative verbs",so my question is what are the diffrences between them and which type of them take the -ing form,past participle,..etc?
However,May people provide me with more information about the above mentioned ?
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Dear Salem! Frank gave you the right link. But I'd like to give some general explanations.
English grammar operates with such a term as "groups of verbs". There are two main groups: dymanic verbs that describe actions (read, go, write, look, etc) and stative verbs that describe some state (know, understand, love, seem, be, etc).
All English verbs have 3 participle forms. I think you mean which verbs we can't use in the Continuous tense, don't you?
Well, first of all, you should realize that such a tense describes an action that is (was) not finished at the moment of speech (i.e, the moment you are talking about) but this action is finite. So, some groups of verbs aren't used in the continuous tense because it is either senseless or absurd. For example, if you say "I am wanting...", it means that your desire will pass away soon, so there is no reason to do what you want! If you say "I am loving...", it means that you will change your mind soon. It is just offencive.
To make a long story short, we don't use the following groups of verbs in the continuous tenses:
- verbs describing our sense organs (see, hear, sound, smell, taste, feel);
- verbs describing our mental abilities (know, understand....);
- verbs describing our feelings (love, like.....);
- verbs describing our desires (wish, want, will, desire);
- verbs describing our suppositions (seem, appear.....);
- some other verbs that don't describe temporary actions (own, belong, consist....)
There are many exceptions but I can't tell you about all at once. You may ask me other questions in this connection
This should answer your question ...
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/stat.htm