Qual dos verbos a seguir não faz parte dos stative verbs?
Escolha uma:
a. Taste.
b. Smell.
c. Sound.
d. Understand.
e. Play.
Respostas
Letra E(play): É só lembrar que os stative verbs descrevem sensações, estados ou sentimentos, situações que não mudam ou mudam muito lentamente.
1) The correct alternative is "E".
- Why not A, B, C, D?
2) Stative (or State) Verbs: Some Engish verbs, which we call state, non-continuous or stative verbs, aren't used in continuous tenses ( like the present continuous, or the future continuous). These verbs often describe states that last for some time. Here is a list of some common ones.
Stative (or State) Verb List:
like, know, belong, love, realise, fit, hat, suppose, contain, want, mean, consist, need, understand, seem, prefer, believe, depend, agree, remember, matter, mind, recognise, see, own, appear, look (=seem), sound, taste, smell, hear, astonish, deny, disagree, please, impress, satisfy, promise, surpreise, doubt, think (=have an feel, = have an opinion), wish, imagine, concern, dislike, be, have, deserve, involve, include, lack, measure (=have length, etc), possess, owe, weight (=have weight
- Why not A?
Taste are stative and dynamic verbs:
* taste (stative) = has a certain taste.
Examples:
This soup tastes great.
The coffee tastes really bitter.
* taste (dynamic) = the action of tasting
Example:
The chef is tasting the soup
(' taste is the same as other similiar verbs such as 'smell')