Present tenses

3. Stative verbs

Stative verbs are not normally used in the continuous form. The most common of these verbs are:

admire, be, believe, belong, consist, dislike, doubt, fit, forget, guess, hate, hear, imagine, include, keep, know, like, love, mean, prefer, realise, recognise, remember, seem, smell, sound, suppose, taste, understand, want, wish