Is Has An Action Verb. Because action verbs are something a subject can do, only action verbs (not non-action verbs) can take on the progressive tense. An action verb, as you may have guessed, is a verb that expresses an action.

This is the opposite of a stative verb that expresses a passive state such as "know", "believe" or "regret." Action verbs are commonly used in business to express strategy, goals, objectives, job descriptions and to report business progress.
Transitive verbs require a direct object, something or someone, to receive the action of the verb.
In this case, a simplified rule for identifying if a verb is stative or active is to conjugate the verb into one of the continuous tenses (by using its present participle) and see if the sentence still makes sense. have/has/had are 'action verbs' when they are followed by a noun, eg. i have a pen - is the action of having or owning a pen. when they are used in a sentence such as 'i have played football' they. Linking verbs are verbs that link the subject of the sentence with more information about itself. Every day I walk home from class.