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The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...

Ant_222 wrote: ...your explanation through active and passive attributes. I don't know why you need this classification. Maybe it's correct, but I don't like it. Hi, Ant_222. It is not "active and passive attributes," but "active and static attributes." Perhaps I should have used the words...

Neither of your natural-sounding examples has an indefinite article followed by a time unit followed by "before" within an "if" clause. It seems to me that one or more of these factors must be contributing to the difference we sense. "I think we have met before" has no article and time unit, so...