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esllou Aug 9th, 2006 09:37 am

Most Common Irregular Verbs in English
 
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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%.

tyrell Aug 20th, 2006 06:57 pm

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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.

thanks

esllou Aug 21st, 2006 07:54 am

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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.

thanks

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

amiks812 Jan 29th, 2009 06:32 pm

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Love this worksheet... I'm a Speech-Language Pathologist.....so this will come in handy.

Thank you!!! :)

wakeupmartin Aug 12th, 2009 08:49 am

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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.?
Martin

englishzonehelp Sep 3rd, 2009 09:50 pm

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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?

wakeupmartin Sep 17th, 2009 06:11 am

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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.
Martin

duygugul Oct 8th, 2009 02:21 pm

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Thank you, I can use the list in my class..

wakeupmartin Jun 24th, 2010 10:03 am

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Thanks again,
Have just translated the list into Lithuanian...
Very useful with my students.
Martin

yahel Nov 18th, 2010 04:35 am

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thanks!

gizmo Jul 7th, 2011 12:37 pm

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Thank you!!!

cavalier35 Dec 8th, 2011 08:54 am

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thanks


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