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Action and non-action verbs

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ACTION & NON-ACTION VERBS

For example: -Read -Write -Cook -Drive -Make -Do -Create -Listen -Watch

ACTION VERBS

- Are used to describe an action that is performed. - These verbs can be used in simple, perfect, and continuous tenses. I'm making the lunch. I usually make the lunch at the weekend.

For Example:

NON-ACTION VERBS

Are used to describe states, senses, desires, possession, emotions, and opinion. These verbs are not usually used in continuous tenses.

I love pasta I'm loving pasta

They need you now They're needing you now

Be Need Believe

Non-action or

ABSTRACT

- stative verbs-

Like Love Hate

They are not usually used in the present continuous, even if we mean ‘now’.

FEELINGS

Feel Smell See

SENSES

Have BelongOwn

BELONGINGS

Some verbs that can be both action and non-action

HAVE

THINK

I have a cat now. = possession (non-action) I can’t talk now. I’m having lunch. = an action

I think this music’s great. = opinion (non-action) What are you thinking about? = an action

Let's practice!

Billy (be) twelve years old. He (learn) English at school now. He (like) English a lot, and he (think) that it is a useful language. He (have) some homework to do. That's why he (sit) here in front of his computer.

He (want) to take an English test from Anglais Facile right now. He (think) about these rules but he (not / remember) them very well. Is it 'farest' or farthest' ?

Billy is twelve years old. He is learning English at school now. He likes English a lot, and he thinks that it is a useful language. He has some homework to do. That's why he is sitting here in front of his computer.

He wants to take an English test from Anglais Facile right now. He is thinking about these rules but he doesn't remember them very well. Is it 'farest' or farthest' ?