Verbs not used in progressive forms
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👉🏻Some verbs are not used in progressive forms.

🔹I love you. (NOT I am loving you.)
🔹I like this color. (NOT I am liking this color.)
🔹I rang her up because I wanted to speak. (NOT I rang her up because I was wanting to speak.)

👉🏻 Many of these non-progressive verbs refer to states rather than actions. They are also called stative verbs.

🔮 Common non-progressive verbs

Here is a list of some common verbs which are not often used in progressive forms.
🟡 believe, doubt, feel, imagine, know, dislike, love, hate, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, see, suppose, think, understand, want, wish, appear, hear, look, see, seem, smell, sound, taste, agree, deny,
astonish, disagree, impress, mean, please, promise, satisfy, surprise, belong, concern, consist, depend, fit, involve, lack, matter, need, owe, own, possess, weigh etc.

🔎 Notes
🔸Feel does not have a progressive form when it means ‘have an opinion’.
🔹I feel you are making a mistake. (NOT I am feeling you are making a mistake.)

🔸See does not have a progressive form when it means ‘understand’.
🔹I see what you mean. (NOT I am seeing what you mean.)

🔸Look does not have a progressive form when it means ‘seem’.
🔹She looks like she is rich. (NOT She is looking like she is rich.)

🔸Weigh does not have a progressive form when it means ‘have weight’.
🔹He weighs 70 kilos. (NOT He is weighing 70 kilos.)
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Singular and plural nouns
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👉🏻The label number refers to the grammatical category which relates to the number of countable objects in the world. In English, number is important with nouns. An English noun exhibits a two-way distinction of number: a singular form and a plural form.

🔻The singular form denotes one of something. Examples are: tree, cat, flower, girl, boy etc.
🔺The plural form denotes two or more of something. Examples are: trees, cats, flowers, girls, boys etc.

👉🏻In English, a singular noun usually has no marking while the plural form carries the suffix -s or -es.

🌸Cat / cats
🌸Dog / dogs
🌸Fox / foxes
🌸Fruit / fruits

👉🏻A few dozen nouns form their plurals irregularly. Examples are:

🌸Child / children
🌸Man / men
🌸Woman / women
🌸Foot / feet
🌸Tooth / teeth
🌸Mouse / mice

👉🏻Nouns with only a singular form or only a plural form
Some nouns have only a singular form or only a plural form. Nouns which have only a singular form include the following: furniture, wheat, happiness, scenery, news, information, luggage, bread, advice etc.

👉🏻Nouns which have only a plural form include the following: police, cattle, oats, tweezers, pants, remains etc.
Nouns with identical singular and plural forms
A few nouns in English have identical singular and plural forms. An example is 🐑sheep, deer.

🌸The sheep is hungry. (Sheep – singular)🐑
🌸The sheep are hungry. (Sheep – plural)🐑🐑
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