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I think the reason is the perfect=complete connection. Sometimes the perfect does imply completion and sometimes it does not. I have eaten. (dynamic verb and implies that you're finished eating) I have lived in L.A. for 10 years. (stative verb and implies that I am still living here). ...

It's a matter of personal preference. So their objective of widespread publicity has been achieved. I wouldn't use it as an intensive, but this type of construction is not absent from proper English. "I'm going to the movies tonight" is an example of the same type of...

http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/progressive.htm #begin quote The progressive forms of a verb indicate that something is happening or was happening or will be happening. When used with the past, the progressive form shows the limited duration of an event: "While I was doing my homework, my...

BTW, "loving" and "needing" in your sentences are gerunds(nouns). Yes, you can use progressive. But they convey more meaning than do the normal stative verbs.

Hey everyone! It becomes very interesting, I also try to find more stative verbs that are used in progressive form. It seems like native speakers do not follow the rules and always use these verbs in progressive. There are some verbs used in progressive which I noticed: "I was knowing...

ok... more info on "stative verbs ... - Verbs of inert perception and cognition, e.g. think, believe, like, love, see, feel, forgive, hear, remember, smell and wish... occasionally, people use these verbs in a future sense ... example: i am seeing her later today. (for some of the other...

yes, people do say this sort of thing, to emphasize the immediacy of the action. "i am loving it" means you are presently in the act of enjoying something (e.g. food at mcdonald's). another example ... you may ask a person, "how is the new job?" to which he or she might reply, "i am loving it!"...

Hi Antonio, Could you please post the title of the book in which you have read about the stative and dynamic verbs, I am going to write a course paper on this topic. As far as I know native speakers of english use many stative verbs in prograssive aspect, but in this case the meaning of the...

antonio... help me out here. admitedly, i am unfamiliar with the terms stative and relational, but more importantly, i don,t quite understand your question. you were always told "stative verbs cannot appear in a progressive tense", and your definition of stative verbs says the exact same thing!...

Hi! here I come with a new question: I´ve been always told that stative verbs cannot appear in a progressive tense, but now I quote what I found yesterday in one of my books: Stative verbs: they do not admit the progressive aspect. - Verbs of inert perception and...