Discussion
In the sentence below, a part is printed in bold. Choose the alternative that best replaces it. If no improvement is needed, choose ‘No correction required’.
I am knowing him since our college days.
Answer: A
Correct answer: have known
Two things are wrong with the printed phrase, and the correction fixes both. First, know is a stative verb, describing a state rather than an activity, and stative verbs are not used in continuous tenses. The same applies to believe, understand, remember, want, like, prefer, own, belong, contain, seem and hate. Second, an acquaintance that began in the past and continues now takes the present perfect, marked here by since. So I have known him since our college days. The simple present know would be correct without since - I know him well - but cannot carry a starting point. Note that a few verbs are stative in one sense and dynamic in another: I am thinking about it is fine because think there means to consider, while I am thinking it is true is not.
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