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🔉 State verbs and Action verbs 🔉

A state means something staying the same.

The flat is clean.
The farmer owns the land.

❗️State verbs cannot usually be continuous. Not: The farmer is owning the land ❌

An action means something happening.

I'm cleaning the flat.
The farmer is buying the land.

❗️Action verbs can be simple or continuous.

1) He put / He was putting everything away.
2) I think / I'm thinking etc.
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Sometimes we can use a verb either for a state or for an action.

🌸 States (simple tenses) 🌸

I "think" you're right (= believe).
We "have" three cars (= own).

🌸 Actions (simple or continuous) 🌸

I'm "thinking" about the problem.
We're "having" lunch (eating).
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These examples with the verb "Be" are about how people behave:

Permanent Quality:
Claire "is" a very sociable person.
That man "is" an idiot.

Temporary Quality:
Andrew "is being" very sociable today.
You "are being" an idiot this morning.

❗️We use am/are/is being only to talk about behavior, not about other things.
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👉 Sometimes we can use either the simple or the continuous with no difference in meaning.

You look well. Or You're looking well.
We feel a bit sad. Or We're feeling a bit sad.
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