Sense and Action verbs

See= 'Can you see that airplane?' Look = 'She looked at the painting carefully.' Hear = 'I heard the phone ringing.' Sound = 'She sounds like Madonna.' Feel = 'Abdul felt his chair move.' Taste= 'Can you taste this soup for me?' Watch = 'They watched the film together.' Smell = 'Cigarette smoke smells terrible.' base and ing verbs Compare these two sentences to see the difference in meaning between base and ing verbs. The sense verb is saw (see). 'I saw her play football.' = I saw the whole game of football/ I saw the whole action. 'I saw her playing football' = When I saw her she was playing. We assume that the speaker did not watch the whole game. The game probably continued after the speaker stopped watching. describing things using sense verbs and adjectives We can use sense verbs with adjectives to describe our personal opinions and thoughts about things: 'This cake tastes delicious.' 'The seawater feels warm.' 'You look tired.' 'Fresh bread smells great.'

'This new band sound original' describing things using sense verbs and nouns We use subject + sense verb + like + object to compare the similarity between two nouns. For example: 'Your father looks like Father Christmas.' Your father (subject) + looks (sense verb) + like+ Father Christmas (object) 'Perfume smells like flowers.' 'This tastes like dog food!' Link: 'What are auxiliary verbs?'

Opera ___ boring. Correct! like tastes smells sounds

Beer ___ bitter. Correct! sounds tastes looks feels

My massage ___ relaxing. Correct!

felt tasted sounded smelt

Fireworks ____ giant flowers. Correct! looks like looks look like look

Gupta ___ his dog barking. Correct! tasted smelt looks heard

This soap ____ lemon. Correct! smell like smells like smelt smell

You ___ your sister. Correct! like looks like look like looks

Can you ____ my bag for me? Correct! watch like watching lwatched watching

The sand ___. Correct! feeling dry feels like dry feel dry feels dry

The scenery ___. Correct! look beautiful looks like beautiful looks beautiful look like beautiful

Cookies ___. Correct! taste delicious taste like delicious tastes like delicious tastes delicious

see, hear, taste, smell, feel are verbs that describe senses.

-These verbs arent usually used in continuous forms. They are often used with can.

It smells of smoke in here. NOT Its smelling of smoke in here. I cant see anything. Its too dark.

4. Stative verbs describe things that are not actions.

He smells of fish. Hes smelling the fish. The second sentence is an action not a state. The man wants to know if the fish is OK to eat.

I think we should go to Croatia for our holiday this year. Sorry, what did you say? I was thinking about my holiday. The first sentence is an opinion but the second sentence is an action.