Don't make sense in a continous form. for example: The verb "to want" we don't say

-I am wanting an ice cream.

We say:

-I want an ice cream.

So, the action can happen now, but we don't use this verb in a continous form. Here are list the verb, that are not normally used in the continous form

Verbs of sense: Hear, see, smell.
Verbs of feelings: Like, love, hate, meed, want, wish, care, mind, fear.
Verbs of prices or measures: Cost, measure, weight, contain.
Verbs of possesion: have got, own, belong, posseess, exist.
Verbs of possession: Believe doubt, feel, forget, guess, hope, imagine, know,mean, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, seem, suppose, think, understand.

	Created by John Edinson Carrillo medina almost 6 years ago

Ingles Note on State verbs, created by John Edinson Carrillo medina on 06/03/2019.