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Default Re: Sensitive verbs?

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Originally Posted by I like English
Hi,

I am not clear if we can call these verbs (see, feel, touch, smell, hear...)sensitive verb???

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Yun Ju
They are called stative verbs and they belong to the category "linking verbs". Linking verbs relate to the five senses (look, sound, smell, feel, taste) or reflect a state of being (appear, seem, become, grow, turn, prove, remain). :D
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