EX 177 TRANSLATE INTO UZBEK AND LEARN BY HEART. Verbs rarely used in a continuous form
The continuous form of a verb is mainly used to show that an action or event is (or was, or will be) happening at a particular point in time – it has reached a stage somewhere between its beginning and its end.
Because the continuous form is used to refer to events or actions which happen, it is not normally used with verbs referring to states (which exist but do not happen).
The dictionary marks meanings of verbs that are never used in the continuous. For example ‘own’ is marked [T not be owning] because we say ‘He owns three cars’ but never ‘He is owning three cars’. These are shown with a * in the following list.
