18. Which sentence uses the correct past tense of the non-action/stative verb "believe" (mental state)?

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The question asks which sentence uses the correct past tense form of the non-action (stative) verb 'believe' in a mental-state context.
Option 1: 'I believe you yesterday when you said you loved me.' The use of present tense 'believe' is inappropriate here because the time reference is 'yesterday'; a past tense form is required.
Option 2: 'I believed you yesterday when you said you loved me.' This correctly places the verb in simple past tense to match the time indicator 'yesterday' and keeps 'believe' in its non-progressive form, which is appropriate for mental states.
Option 3: 'I am believing you yesterday when you said you loved me.' The present progressive 'am believing' is incorrect for a past time reference and for a stative verb; stative verbs typically do not take the -ing form.
Option 4: 'I was believing you yesterday when you said you loved me.' The past progressive 'was believing' is unnecessary and awkward here for a mental state verb, and many stative verbs do not naturally occur in the past progressive.
Option 5: 'I believing you yesterday when you were saying you loved me.' This combines an incorrect participle 'believing' with a gerund-like structure and also 'were saying' shifts to progressive for both verbs, which is inappropriate for this context.
In summary, only Option 2 uses the correct past simple form appropriate for a stative verb describing a mental state tied to a past time reference.

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