Showing posts with label irregular verbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irregular verbs. Show all posts

Friday, July 15, 2011

The most common verbs

"Here are the ten most heavily used verbs in the English language: be, have, do, say, make, go, take, come, see, get. Do you notice what they have in common? They are all irregular.
There are around 180 irregular verbs in English – a small fraction of the many thousands of regular ones. They punch above their weight*, however, making up 70% of the verbs in everyday use."
                                                                 Kieran McGovern 
An interesting fact from an interesting article on Oxford's site.