You are hurting her feelings

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Rachel Adams

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I read that "hurt" and "ache" like "look" and "feel" can be both used (or can both be used?:shock:) in the present simple and progressive. But "hurt" has an additional meaning such as "to make somebody unhappy or upset". Is it used in both tenses in this sense too? For example, "You are hurting her feelings" or "Reading books is never hurting anyone."
 
Write can both be used.

"You are hurting her feelings": you are in the process of doing so.

"Reading books is never hurting anyone": ungrammatical.
 
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