Thursday, 13 December 2012

EF 2/3 31 Most Common Verbs


31 Most Commonly Used Verbs in English

The list below is based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus of over a billion words, and represents one study done by Oxford Online, associated with the Oxford English Dictionary.  This source includes writings of all sorts from "literary novels and specialist journals to everyday newspapers and magazines and from Hansard to the language of chatrooms, emails, and weblogs".


1.     be
2.     have
3.     do
4.     eat
5.     sleep
6.     drink
7.     put
8.     keep
9.     run
10.                        walk
11.                        say
12.                        get
13.                        make
14.                        go
15.                        know
16.                        take
17.                        see
18.                        come
19.                        think
20.                        look
21.                        want
22.                        give
23.                        use
24.                        find
25.                        tell
26.                        ask
27.                        work
28.                        seem
29.                        feel
30.                        try
31.                        leave




From Wikipedia.com

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