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Default Most Common Irregular Verbs in English

They are listed in order of how often they appear in real English as shown by the famous Lancaster-Bergen corpus. These 50 in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurrence in English. The other 80 irregular verbs in English make up the other 13%.
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They are listed in order of how often they appear in real English as shown by the famous Lancaster-Bergen corpus. These 50 in this order represent an incredible 87% of irregular verb occurrence in English. The other 80 irregular verbs in English make up the other 13%.
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What exactly is the Lancaster-Bergen corpus?
I'd like to use this list of verbs in my class, so I'd like to know what it's origin is.

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What exactly is the Lancaster-Bergen corpus?
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In linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed).

Cobuild dictionaries use corpus texts to show real examples of English used in context. The Lancaster/Oslo-Bergen Corpus (LOB): Approximately 1,000,000 words of British written English dating from 1960. The corpus is made up of 15 different genre categories.

http://khnt.hit.uib.no/icame/manuals/lob/INDEX.HTM
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Love this worksheet... I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist.....so this will come in handy.

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Thank you very much. How useful! I've just translated the list into Polish. I'll definitely use this with my students. Are there any other similar lists? 50-100 most common regular verbs? 500 most common nouns etc.?
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Where are "be", "do", and "have" on this list? I would think that they would be somewhere near the top... It's interesting that they are not in the top 50 at all. I suppose that verb prevalence in writing differs somewhat from that found in spoken language?
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I think that be, do and have were omitted from the list because they are just far too common, and are used in compound tenses...
I have gone, we are going, we do go, etc...
I'm sure they would hold the top three positions.
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Thank you, I can use the list in my class..
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Thanks again,
Have just translated the list into Lithuanian...
Very useful with my students.
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Thank you!!!
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