How are you liking that new car that you’ve bought?

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sadra1400

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Why do we use "like" in progressive tense here?


How are you liking that new car that you’ve bought?

Oh, I hear you’ve moved jobs recently. Are you liking the experience?

How are you liking the move to the new city?
 
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It's for the reason we normally use the progressive tense aspect: to place emphasis on the limited duration of the state/action.

Where did you find these sentences?
 

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Hmmm, I'm not hugely impressed with the standard of language on that site. For example (all taken from the page you linked to):

Difference between stative and dynamic verbs. This isn't a complete sentence and it wasn't used as a caption.
Hi there, welcome back teacher Harry here back to our English lessons ... Very poorly punctuated.
So we’re talking there, and something continuous. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.
 
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