Level 2, Foundation Centre

By: Ms. Donna

 Stative verbs describe states, they refer to the way the things are (appearance, state of being etc) Stative verbs are never used in continuous forms

VERBS SHOWING EMOTIONS

like, love, dislike, hate, prefer, adore, want, wish, desire, etc I wish to stay thin

VERBS THAT SHOW POSSESSION

have, own, possess, contain, include, belong, etc She has a cat

VERBS THAT SHOW THOUGHT

know, believe, understand, realise, remember, forget, notice, recognise, think, seem, expect etc
She realises she has won

VERBS THAT SHOW SENSES

see, hear, smell, taste, feel, sound, look The butterfly looks beautiful

 The verb to have means to own or to possess, and when it carries this meaning it is used in the simple present tense. Have can have other meanings too and can be used in both simple present and present continuous

Different meanings of HAVE

Examples
She always has a cup of tea in the morning. Shes having a cup of tea in the kitchen.

Eat, drink, or smoke

They usually have their holiday Describing what you experience/happens to you in August.

Were having a wonderful time.

Describing certain activities. I sometimes have a game of

tennis with him. Hes having a shower.

 an article is an adjective. Like adjectives, articles modify nouns. English has two articles: the and a/an. The is used to refer to specific or particular nouns; a/an is used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns. We call the the definite article and a/an the indefinite article.

 A is used before words beginning with a consonant and we use an before words that start with a vowel For example, if I say, "Let's read the book," I mean a specific book. If I say, "Let's read a book," I mean any book rather than a specific book.

 A/an is used before a singular countable noun that you talk about for the first time Some or nothing is used before plural countable countable nouns that you talk about for the first time

 Some or nothing is used before uncountable countable nouns that you talk about for the first time The is used before both singular or plural countable and uncountable nouns when you already know about them