Given the correct context, all of them can be.Please tell me the stative verbs that can be used in progressive aspect.
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In the following sentences 'agree' and 'appear' is used with -ing.Is this construction right?
The difficulty with these systems was agreeing who would maintain them in the future .
Agreeing is a gerund here, not a present participle. Nobody "was agreeing". This sentence means:
The difficulty with these systems [Subject] was [Copula Verb] agreeing [gerund noun ] who would maintain them in the future [Complement]. OR
"Agreeing who would maintain them in future [Subject] was [Copula Verb] the difficulty [noun] with the system [Complement].
Still, you can write a progressive sentence with "agree".
"It was a strange discussion. I couldn't tell if they were agreeing or not."
No wonder lines were appearing on his face.
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Are you sure about this example? Again, it seems not to be "aux of "to be" + present participle" -> present progressive tense.Hello,
Many stative verbs can mix with grammatical progressive aspect. As you may already know, stative verbs have a permanency and unchanging aspect to them which is why using progressive aspect with it would make some pretty funny and redundant sounding sentences (ex. I am knowing this question / I know this question). However, if you hear stative verbs being used with progressive aspect, a temporary/hypothetical state and internally viewed sense is expressed. For example:
Yes.
"I'm far more comfortable knowing that Israel has nuclear weapons than I am knowing that Iran is trying to posses them."
Are you sure about this example? Again, it seems not to be "aux of "to be" + present participle" -> present progressive tense.
Doesn't it mean:
"I'm far more comfortable knowing that Israel has nuclear weapons than I am comfortable knowing that Iran is trying to posses them."?
It doesn't mean "I am more uncomfortable now that I am knowing that Iran is trying to possess them." (which would be an example, but a bad one.)
Again, "I'm more uncomfortable knowing this than I am knowing that." is not an example of a stative verb used progressively because there's an ellipted "uncomfortable".
Isn't "knowing" a gerund in your example? "Knowing this makes me more uncomfortable than knowing that."
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I want your help again.In the following sentence 'Denying' is verb or something else.
"There is no denying the fact that such data is also required".
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I want your help again.In the following sentence 'Denying' is verb or something else.
"There is no denying the fact that such data is also required".
Thanks alot"Denying" is not a part of the verb. Again, it's a gerund.
"Denying the fact that such data is also required is not possible."
Thanksmaybe this helps - "It is fact that such data is also required."
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