Are there any two-word verbs in English language that can be considered as most common, like give up, break down etc? I am curious because I do not know is GIVE UP a verb or just GIVE whithout UP.
Those are technically called Phrasal Verbs. I suppose those don't count here for simplicity. The whole phrase is the "verb" or semantic unit, even though one of the words (such as "give") can be a verb in its own right.
very much fun! Only in the last minute I tried the words written above the quiz like enter, answer, name, include and base. Did not lead me to want and work though.
There should be a verb that means "to engage in performative, public criticism of others due to a wholly false belief in oneself to be morally and intellectually superior as a sad attempt assuage ones own desperate insecurity". Perhaps it could be called "to European".
Excellent and challenging quiz. Just a wee suggest: I know that the description specifies that this is based on American English, but would it be possible to add anglicised versions as acceptable answers (such as 'realise' and 'recognise')?
Yes, why common words like drink, wake, brush, clean, repair, ride etc. not in this list? Those guys preparing this list must have been sitting at the office desk.
Biggest surprise for me was shut. I must've heard "shut up" in its various forms, as well as "shut the door," "shut the fridge," "shut out," etc. hundreds of thousands of times growing up. But it didn't make it into the top 250 while words I've heard only a handful of times did.
I get that this is based on an American listing, but you should probably have the British-English spellings of words (where the British and America spellings differ), because I guessed some of them only to think them wrong because I'm British and spelled them 'correctly' only for them not to count. I kind of feel a little bit dirty typing in the American spellings.
I was waiting to see some words that are heard pretty often, but guess this is a clean version. Also, legal and religious verbs are somewhat surprisingly missing... And everybody seems to just eat and enter, but no one drinks or exits.
What religious verbs would there be that are commonly used? I can only really think of two off the top of my head (pray & worship) but those are very rarely heard where I'm from at least
pray could be a regular one, I pray to god that... (wether you are religious or not, just like thank god. It is something some people use often in their speech) Or many other phrases where people say pray instead of hope. Like I pray I did alright on my exams.
Love this quiz! The100 Most Common Words in the English Language has been in my top 5 favorite list for years now! I retake very so often and it's always challenging.
Getting 98 hurts. 1 shy of getting into that 75th percentile and getting the 4th point. Hopefully some more people will take this quiz and bring the average down.
Jolly fun! I wish I could find the website that I used to look at a few years ago...it had tens of thousands of English words, ranked in order from most to least common. It was fun to type in a word and find out just how obscure it was!
Fascinating quiz. I have taken this 42 times now, and I seem to plateau around 160 at the moment. However, I get different verbs every time. There's only six words I have never guessed (and one of them is "born", which is an obvious error and should be fixed).
Believe it or not, several years ago, when I was more or less trapped at home, I memorized the list and made 248. There's plenty of time. I'm a very slow typist. Today I was only able to get 145.....It would be SO much easier if the answers showed up alphabetically.
I agree with many of the comments that there are some inexplicable omissions: drink, cook....As a piano teacher I find it interesting that perform is here, but not practice. You can't have one without the other!
"In American English, practice may function as a noun or a verb. Regardless of its role in the sentence, the correct spelling is always practice with a C."
Practice or Practise–Which Spelling Is Right? | Grammarly
Beating the odds
Striking up bargains
Shooting pictures
Hanging out
Cutting some slack
Forcing compromises
Fighting to win
Hurting so good
Suffering succotash
Killing it (as in doing really well)
Dying of laughter
You don't say "I am not able to born children".
If no other past form or past participle is accepted then neither should be "born".
I too thought of born as a possible answer, knew the present tense is bear and tried bear which didn't work.
take, come, use, tell, try....
I also like to look at the words I got that were low percentage gets like Test, worry, forgive
realize (NA) - realise (UK)
Though interesting how a lot of times, the opposite of certain words arent there.
It's the 4th time I've rolled my eyes going down the list of words I'll use many times today and couldn't think of in 20 whole, desperate minutes.
Thanks Quizmaster!
I agree with many of the comments that there are some inexplicable omissions: drink, cook....As a piano teacher I find it interesting that perform is here, but not practice. You can't have one without the other!
Practice or Practise–Which Spelling Is Right? | Grammarly
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