look / sound / smell / feel / taste / seem + AS IF + clause

AS THOUGH
LIKE

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look / sound / smell / feel / taste / seem + adjective

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look / sound / smell / feel / taste / seem + LIKE + noun

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smell / taste OF + noun smell / taste LIKE + noun

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see / hear / watch / feel / notice + gerund / infinitive

[action in progress] [the whole action]
[repeated action]

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Seem to + infinitive

Seem to be + ……. ing

Seem to have + III form

NON ACTION VERBS [STATE VERBS] ACTION VERBS

– don’t have continuous forms can have continuous or simple form

PRESENT SIMPLE – now or repetitive PRESENT CONTINUOUS – now PRESENT SIMPLE - repetitive

1. Mary looks nice [appearance] 1. Bob is looking at Mary [ staring at] 1. Bob always looks at Mary with love.

2. Roses smell nice [ have fragance] 2. Mary is smelling a rose [inhaling the smell] 2. Mary always smells meat before she cooks it.

3. Chocolate tastes good [has flavour] 3. Mary is tasting chocolate [eating to check taste] 3. Mary always tastes soup before she serves it

4. I can see very well [your sight] 4. I’m seeing a friend tonight for lunch [meeting] 4. She sees very well during the day but worse at
night