According to the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English (1999) the list of the top 10 verbs of the English language is:
- Number 10.Want (voler). Just a normal, regular verb.
- Number 9.Take (agafar). The first irregular verb in the list!
- Number 8. Come (venir). Irregular!
- Number 7. Make (fer). Irregular too!
- Number 6. See (veure). Erm… irregular again? Yes!!
- Number 5. Think (pensar). Irregular, yes!
- Number 4. Know (conèixer) Yet another irregular verb.
- Number 3. …
- Number 2. …
- Number 1. …
Can you guess these three verbs? Send me your comments and see if you win this little competition. Oh, one clue: it’s not ‘to be’ nor ‘to have’ and they are all irregular verbs!
1. Be.
2. Have.
3. Do
Sorry, Guirod, but ‘be’, ‘have’ and ‘do’ are not in the list because they are auxiliary verbs and they are not included in this ranking.
I think that the least three irregular verbs that don’t be in this list but are also very useful in english are:
– give
– go
– say
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oh, it’s necessary that I put the means of the verbs?
3- go (anar)
2- say (dir)
1- do (fer)
1- Say
2- Get
3- Go
I believe that three verbs most used in the English language are:
-say
-get
-go
I see that you’re taking this quite seriously… mmm.
1.Do
2.Say
3.Go
I think that the most frecuent verbs are:
-Go
-Do
-Say
Good luck to everybody but I’m going to win xD!
Diego
Let’s try:
1. Say
2. like
3. Go
By the way, I have seen more or less three chapters of the Mighty Boosh and I like it! I understand more than 60% of what they say.
I think the 3 verbs more frequent in English are:
3- tell (dir, explicar)
2- go (anar)
1- get (aconseguir)
1. Go
2. Give
3. Tell
1. Go (anar)
2. Do (fer)
3. Say (dir)
You caught me there! This post is more than a year old, and I remember I got the data from a teacher training session in Barcelona. I’m afraid I can’t answer now.