stative
adjective
languagespecializeduk/ˈsteɪ.tɪv/us/ˈsteɪ.t̬ɪv/Stativeverbsdescribeastateratherthan anaction.Be,seem, andunderstandare stativeverbs:
InEnglish, stativeverbsare non-progressive.
SomevarietiesofEnglishdo notdistinguishbetween stative anddynamicverbs.
- Allverbswerecategorizedintoactionverbs, stativeverbs, andmentalverbs.
- Allinstancesof stativepossessive"have" and "have got" in thepresenttenseareconsidered.
Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- concord
- countable
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- nominative
- particle
- predicatively
- premodifier
- regularity
- singular
- syntactic
- syntactically
- syntax
- uncountable
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Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
stative
noun[C]
languagespecializeduk/ˈsteɪ.tɪv/us/ˈsteɪ.t̬ɪv/averbthatdescribesastateratherthan anaction:
Statives are usually not used in theprogressivetenses.
- It isunclearwhether these are statives usedprogressivelyorverbsthat havegainedanactivemeaning.
- Morelexicalstatives wereproducedin thespokencorpusthan in the writtencorpus.
Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
- accusative
- art
- bare infinitive
- bent
- continuous
- infinitive
- non-progressive
- participle
- passive
- passivization
- pluperfect
- present
- present participle
- progressive
- the active voice
- the first person
- the future perfect
- the past continuous
- the present continuous
- the third person