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Old 20-Jul-2009, 18:38
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Hi, here is 'The French',

English teachers don't think like you. With verbs like think you can't see the action, so you can't use the continuous form.

I believe that the continuous form it's better to emphasis the progression of the act.

Perhaps an American and an English teachers can settle this grammar point.

Have a nice day, 'Le Français'.
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Old 27-Jul-2009, 00:48
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This is very old topic but then I want to write somethings.
must use 'Think' because this is a model.
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I think the film is good.
I think the sencence is right :)
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i'm a new menber~
join for learning english~ :)
i think the film's good...
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The right sentence is:

"I think the film is good"

because the verb think is a non-action verb.
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Old 26-Oct-2009, 09:34
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Hello, here my opinion

I think something is good (now, it' my opinion about a fact)
I'm thinking I like a big icecream (I hesitate to do something in the near future)
I'm thinking it's no good idea (currentrly the accion no happened, it could happen in the future)

is it OK?

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