The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2.3 - Stories in the news for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Read the Active grammar box and answer question 1.
Read rules A and B and find more examples of the Past Continuous in the news stories on pages 28-29. Then answer question 2.
Answer
The underlined verbs describe something temporary and in progress.
State verbs are not normally used in the continuous form, e.g. like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, know, understand, believe, remember.