 Hi John. It was pretty quiet. We stayed home and did housework. How about you Dr. Jill? We had a big family dinner with my sister and her family. She's a great cook. Everything she makes tastes so good. I love having dinner with her. Oh, what did she bring to your dinner? One thing she brought was apple cake. Here are the last two pieces. Doesn't it look good? It does. And you gave me an idea for some grammar we can teach today, state of verbs. I think you can find grammar in anything, but this is especially delicious. Tell me about it. You said everything your sister makes tastes good. Taste describes what we do with our sense, so it is a state of verb. And I also said I love having dinner with her. Love is a state of verb too, isn't it? That's because it shows an emotional state. Verbs that commonly have a state of meaning include verbs that show emotional states, such as love and dislike, verbs that describe sense perceptions, such as smell or taste, and verbs that show existence, such as seem or look. I remember that we should not use them in the progressive tense. Right. We often use state of verbs in the present tense. So when I saw the cake, I said, that looks good. And that's everyday grammar.