http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aStative+Verbs+tag%3aEnglish+GrammarSearch results for 'tag:Stative Verbs tag:English Grammar' matching tags 'Stative Verbs' and 'English Grammar'en-USXMOD (Build: 3715.30106)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasIsHavingABreakNow/hcnnh/post.htm#598570Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:22:14 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:598570tanitIt's 10 am. He is in his office. He __a break now. To me, both (has and is having) sound OK. But can anyone explain this in more details? Thanks. Hi, I would use only "is having". Present simple is generally associated with repeated actions, so it would be appropriate in a sentence like " At 10am he is in his office and has a break. " In your sentence, you're not talking about his habits/a routine, but about something that is happening right now, and " now " calls for present progressive. I wonder if your concern has to do with the so-called rule according to which stative verbs shouldn't be used in the progressive form. That rule oversimplifies English grammar. Just my (a learner's) two...http://www.englishforums.com/English/StativeVerbs/2/bhqk/Post.htm#79073Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:11:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:79073guestThat is me Nigora, I have forgotten my username and password, so i am anonymous this time so, about the verb 'love' and other stative verbs --- language is alive and it changes throughout the time. stative verbs are being used by native speakers in progressive form in different contexts. but i have never came across them being used in grammatically correct speech. so, for probably by the time in 'ESL textbooks' and handbooks of English grammar somebody will put the new rule, we will never use them in progressive, unless we are just communicating. One more thing if you are interested in Second Language Acquistion read Bley-Vroman's article 'Logical Problem of Foreign Language Learning' which talks about the problems of acquisition....http://www.englishforums.com/English/MyThoughtsOnLanguage/jwnb/post.htm#47152Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:52:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:47152haoqideRight now I'm learning Chinese, my favorite language by far. It's a fascinating language on so many levels! The grammar: The grammar is SO simple when compared with English grammar. There's no verb conjugation like in English. So, instead of having to deal with "I am going, you are going, she is going, he is going, they are going..." you simply have "I go, you go, he go, she go, they go, we go." And Chinese doesn't have all of the tenses like we do in English, either. It simply has past, present, and future. It relies on context to decide when the action took place (instead of "I went, I had gone, I have gone, I shall have gone") and whether it's still going on or not. Remarkably simple in that regard. To make a sentence a...