Stative verbs (agree, think, love etc.)

There are some verbs that do not express a dynamic physical action. We use them to talk about feelings, thoughts, preferences. We call such verbs stative, or state because they show a state, not an action.

Here are some common stative verbs:

• like
• love
• hate
• want
• need
• know
• think
• understand
• remember
• forget
• depend
• prefer

Remember!

What is special about stative verbs? We do not put stative verbs into the continuous (progressive) tenses, they do not get -ing ending, even if we mean "now" or "at the moment".