Глаголы, не используемые в продолженных временах
to dislike, to hate, to like, to love, to prefer, to want, to wish; |
to astonish, to impress, to please, to satisfy, to surprise; |
to believe,to doubt, to feel (=have an opinion), to guess,to imagine,toknow, to mean, to realize, to recognize, toremember, to suppose, to think (=have an opinion), to understand; |
to hear, tosee, to measure(=have length, etc.), to taste (=have aflavour), to smell (=give out a smell), to sound, to weigh (=have weight); |
ещ belong to, to concern, to consist of, to contain, to depend on, to deserve, to fit, to include, to involve, to lack, to matter, to need, to owe, to own, to possess; |
top appear, to resemble, to seem. |
Сравните:
Обратите внимание на то, что даже те глаголы, которые никогда не используются в продолженных формах (как, например, глагол to know) имеют -ing- формы причастия и герундия:
Knowing her tastes, I bought her a large box of chocolates. — Зная её вкусы, я купил ей большую коробку шоколада.
I don't want to go to a foreign country without knowing a little of the language. — Я не хочу ехать в другую страну, не зная хоть немного языка.