Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
verbos dinâmicos e estativos
English translation:
dynamic and stative verbs
Portuguese term
dinâmicos e estativos
| 4 +4 | dynamic and stative verbs |
Sormane Gomes
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| 5 +1 | action verbs and linking verbs |
Kemper Combs
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| 5 | dynamic and static |
António Ribeiro
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Mar 30, 2006 18:48: Sormane Gomes changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (3): Muriel Vasconcellos, António Ribeiro, Sormane Gomes
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dynamic and stative verbs
Perhaps the most fundamental distinction in the verb systems of Austronesian languages is the division into stative and dynamic verbs. Stative verbs often ...
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Tons of example:
410 Grammar: Stative and Dynamic Verbs
Example verbs. Here some common stative and dynamic verbs. The lists may help you to understand what types of verbs are likely to be stative and what types ...
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Ferl - Dynamic and Stative Verbs
This exercise has been created in Hot Potatoes and requires the students to identify dynamic and stative verbs in the haiku provided.
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Learning English | BBC World Service
Could you please explain with the help of examples the difference between stative and dynamic verbs? Moreover, I would be interested in why the sentence 'I ...
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English Grammar: Main Verbs (EnglishClub.com)
Dynamic and stative verbs. Some verbs describe action. They are called "dynamic", and can be used with continuous tenses. Other verbs describe state ...
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Stative verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Verbs which are not stative are often called dynamic verbs. Some languages morphologically distinguish stative and dynamic verbs, or transform one into ...
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Project MUSE
Zeitoun, Elizabeth "Squib: Dynamic vs. Stative Verbs in Mantauran (Rukai) ... guages, dynamic and stative verbs exhibit different morphological alternations ...
muse.jhu.edu/journals/oceanic_linguistics/v039/39.2zeitoun02.pdf
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sorry...tons of exampleS...
Stative verbs are verbs that describe a state and consequently the stative verb is not usually used in the progressive aspect, which is used for incomplete actions in progress.
A dynamic verb is one that can be used in the progressive (continuous) aspect, indicating an unfinished action.
www.usingenglish.com/glossary/dynamic-verb.html - 16k - Mar 25, 2006 -
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action verbs and linking verbs
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Or, rather, can all be followed by adjectives, though not necessarily every time.
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Muriel Vasconcellos
: You are correct. They are also called "dynamic and stative" verbs.
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Thanks. You know, in the nine years that I studied in the United States, I never once heard of dynamic and stative verbs. All of my books used action and linking verbs as well as all of my English teachers. Living and learning.
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dynamic and static
Some of my students have wondered why we can't say "I'm owing you five euros." It is because the verb used is static, not dynamic, which means you can't be doing it, although you can do it; in other words, the static verb (hear) is involuntary whereas the dynamic verb (listen) is voluntary. I'm not listening to the traffic right now, but I hear it alright or all right or allright, despite my best efforts not to. Hearing is involuntary and therefore static and therefore without -ing. Listening, on the other hand, is voluntary and therefore dynamic and therefore with -ing. Right now I'm listening to Marvin Gaye begging some lady to get it on with him. I'm listening to it, and I can stop listening, although I don't want to.
Static verbs include believe, own, have (possession), see (sight), and smell (it smells bad). Voluntary verbs include play, eat, have (a beer, a bath), see (rendezvous), and smell (I'm smelling this wine). The lists go on and on, of course, but you get the picture. Used thus, the verb get is static. Of course, when we speak we never wonder whether a particular verb is static or not, it comes naturally. And I wouldn't advise learners to worry themselves too much about it, although I'd want them to be aware of the difference.
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