But we don’t use the following verbs in Present Continuous.
To want - хотеть, to like - нравиться, to love - любить, to hate – ненавидеть, to need – нуждаться, to prefer – предпочитать, to know – знать, to realize - осознавать, to suppose - предполагать, to mean – означать, to understand - понимать, to believe - верить, to remember – помнить, to belong to - принадлежать, to contain - содержать, to consist of - состоять, to depend (on) – зависеть, to seem – казаться, to see – видеть, to hear – слышать, to smell - нюхать, to taste - пробовать
We use these verbs only in Present Simple.
We don’t use the verb “to have” in Present Continuous in the meaning “to posses”: Now I have a new house.
We use the verbs “to look” and “to feel” in Present Simple and Present Continuous when we talk how somebody feels or looks now: You look well today. Or You are looking well today.
If we use the verb “to think” in the meaning of “to believe” in a complex sentence we will use this verb in Present Simple: I think she is wrong.
But when we talk about a mental process, we use this verb in Present Continuous: I am thinking of him.
To be polite / To be being polite.
We say to be polite if this person is always polite: Jane is very polite person. She is never rude with other people.
We say to be being polite if this person behaves himself/herself in a polite way only at this moment: Usually Ken is very rude, but today he is being very polite.
But we don’t use to be being + Participle 1 when talk about weather and a physical state of a man, the location of a person or thing, physical state of a substance, liquid or compound:
Today is very cold.
I am very exhausted.
The solution of calcium hydroxide is very cold.
I am at home now.
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