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Sentence Correct I Wanting Correct​ Incorrect

The sentence "I was wanting to help them." is incorrect because "want" is a stative verb. The correct form would be "I wanted to help them."

La frase "I was wanting to help them." è scorretta con i verbi di stato "want" al continuo. La forma corretta sarebbe "I wanted to help them."

Question Is the following sentence correct? “I was wanting to help them.”
Title 2464
QType (0=kprim,1=mc,2=sc) 2
Q_1 correct​
Q_2 incorrect
Q_3 -
Answers 0 1 0

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