Present simple with stative verbs – Exercise 166

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Present simple with stative verbs — reference

With some verbs called stative verbs that express feelings, thoughts, preferences we use the simple form, not continuous. Even if we are talking about the situation now, at the moment.

Here are some of the common stative verbs:

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