Performative verbs

Hello.

Can Tie, Hold, Remain work as a performative verbs? In the contexts I stated below:

TIE: Nadal-Djokovic is the most common meeting among men’s tour players since 1968. Federer-Djokovic ties for second; its next edition will push it past Ivan Lendl-John McEnroe.

HOLD: He holds the records among male players for Grand Slam titles (17), reaching Grand Slam finals (27), consecutive Grand Slam semi-final appearances (23) and consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final appearances (36), among others.

REMAIN: Now there remain three more tournaments for me.

Looking forward to your answers.

Dominik92

No.

Do you use these three words (in those contexts) in present continuous? As far as I know you almost don´t . Why it is that? I would expect not to use present continuous with stative verbs but not with those.

In those contexts, I wouldn't use the present continuous. They are describing states rather than actions in those sentences IMO.

Tdol said:

In those contexts, I wouldn't use the present continuous. They are describing states rather than actions in those sentences IMO.

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Thank you.:up:

So the following sentence I have found is incorrect?

"He finished second in both of his finals, which means he is tying with Oliver Millroy and Lee Bell on points"

When would you use present continuous with those words ? Could you tell me please?

That should be "tied".

With his last victory, he is close to tying James in points.

MikeNewYork said:

That should be "tied".

With his last victory, he is close to tying James in points.

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If I understand it well I should use those words as a state verbs even though it can not be find in one box with words like have, see etc. which don´t have continuous form. It would be much easier to consider them to be a state verbs

+ close to tying..... well I may be influenced by many textbooks but it is not present continuous but gerund. "close to" is followed by "-ing".

Dominik92 said:

So the following sentence I have found is incorrect?

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I wouldn't use it, but clearly the person is not thinking of it in the same way, so I wouldn't go so far as to say it's plain wrong.