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Dispositional Sentences

A dispositional sentence affirms of someone or something that he, she or it is regularly disposed to engage in a certain activity:

(1) Pedro lee novelas.

(2) Pedro bebe vino.

(3) Pedro fuma en pipa.

These assert assert that Pedro is a novel reader, that he is a wine drinker and that he is a pipe smoker, rather than that an activity (reading novels, drinking wine or pipe-smoking) is taking place at the moment of speech.