be (state)
believe (mental activity)
belong (possession)
hate (feeling and emotion)
hear (senses)
like (feeling and emotion)
love (feeling and emotion)
mean (mental activity)
prefer (mental activity)
remain (state)
realize (mental activity)
see (senses)
seem (feeling and emotion)
smell (senses)
think (mental activity)
understand (mental activity)
want (feeling and emotion)
wish (feeling and emotion)
Examples: I love her.
I think it’s a good bag.
Verbs denoting mental activity – to know, to believe, to think (=have an opinion), to doubt, to feel (=have an opinion), to guess, to imagine, to mean, to realize, to recognize, to remember, to suppose, to understand
Verbs denoting wish – to want, to wish
Verbs denoting affect or influence – to astonish, to please, to surprise
Verbs denoting abstract relations – to be, to have, to contain, to depend, to belong, to concern, to consist of, to deserve, to fit, to include, to involve, to lack, to matter, to need, to owe, to possess, to appear, to resemble, to seem
Verbs denoting physical properties of objects – to measure (=have length), to taste (=have a flavour), to smell (=give out a smell), to sound, to weight (=have weight)
Compare:
Present Simple (I do)
Actions in general or those which happen repeatedly:
Strong wind often blows here in winter.
We use The Present Simple for a permanent situation.
- In summer they usually go to the South and stay at a hotel near the sea.
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