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Old 12-May-2008, 13:40
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Default Re: State verbs + -ing

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Originally Posted by anamaria_qd View Post
Hello,
I want to ask you a question concerning state verb "like" is it gramatical this sentence?
You are liking strange things these days.

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Why not? One would just have to find an appropriate (jokey sort of)context for it.

On Google, there are 711 000 examples of "I'm liking". Even if one was sceptical and only wanted to accept 1% of them as coming from native speakers and not corresponding to repetitions, that would still make over a thousand examples.

My guess is that if the progressive form of like isn't yet to be found in grammars, it soon will be.
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