Thursday, September 1, 2022

Common verbs

The 10 most common verbs in English (number of occurrences in a million words of text)

  1. be
  2. have
  3. do
  4. say
  5. make
  6. go
  7. take
  8. come
  9. see
10. get
 
Steven Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
 
 
 
 
 




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