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Question 23

Which sentence uses a verb with a dual state and action meaning correctly?

  1. I am believing your explanation now.
  2. He is having a cottage by the lake.
  3. We are needing another chair at the moment.
  4. Javed is tasting the stew now to decide whether it needs pepper.Correct answer

Explanation

The stew sentence uses tasting for deliberate sampling, an action meaning that permits the continuous. Believing and needing are stative here, while having a cottage denotes possession, so those continuous forms do not fit their meanings.

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