Stative and activity verbs

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Elvis
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Stative and activity verbs

Post by Elvis » Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:11 pm

Dear ones,
Is feel in this sentence an activity or state verb.

1-How are you feeling today?
I am feeling well.
and cou´ld you give more examples so that I will be able to diffrentiate between them both as state and action verb.

thanks in advance....

jotham
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Post by jotham » Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:31 am

Those seem to be static verbs, or linking verbs. Verbs like seem, hear, look, smell are also examples. They all can be comfortably replaced with a be verb.

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