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Ten verbs, drawn from the list above.",[721,724,727,730,733],{"question":722,"answer":723},"How were these 100 verbs chosen?","They are the 100 highest-ranked verbs in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), a one-billion-word corpus of American English. We did not hand-pick them — we filtered the corpus frequency list down to entries tagged as verbs and took the top 100 in order.",{"question":725,"answer":726},"Why are 'can', 'will' and 'would' in a list of verbs?","They are modal verbs, and the corpus tags them as verbs rather than as a separate class. Because they are extremely frequent, they rank high. We kept them in place instead of quietly removing them, so the ranking still matches the underlying data.",{"question":728,"answer":729},"Do I need to learn all 100 to hold a conversation?","No, but they are the highest-value 100 verbs you could learn. The first twenty alone cover an enormous share of everyday speech, and the whole list is well within A1-B1 vocabulary for the most part.",{"question":731,"answer":732},"What do the CEFR levels next to each verb mean?","They are our editorial estimate of the level at which a learner typically meets and uses that verb, expressed on the CEFR scale from A1 to C2. They are a study aid, not part of the corpus data — the ranking itself comes purely from frequency.",{"question":734,"answer":735},"Is the list the same as the number of words I need to know?","Each entry is a lemma — a dictionary headword that stands for all its forms. 'Be' covers is, am, are, was, were and been, so learning one entry gives you several forms at once.",{"heading":737,"paragraphs":738},"Common English verbs explained",[739,740,741,742],"English vocabulary is heavily front-loaded. A handful of verbs appear so often that they shape the rhythm of the language: be, have, do, say, go and get together account for a striking share of every conversation, news report and novel. Learning them properly — all their forms, their common patterns, the prepositions that follow them — pays back far more than memorising rarer words.","The verbs at the top of this list are also the most irregular, which is not a coincidence. Linguists have long observed that the most frequently used verbs resist regularisation: because speakers hear them constantly, irregular forms like went, said and took survive where rarer verbs drift towards regular -ed endings. That means the highest-frequency verbs are exactly the ones worth drilling as forms, not just as meanings.","Frequency is not the same as simplicity. Verbs such as set, hold, run and turn are common precisely because they are used in dozens of senses and in many phrasal combinations. A learner who knows only one meaning of 'get' will still be lost in half the sentences it appears in. That is why every entry here carries a definition and an example sentence rather than a bare translation.","Use this ranking as a checklist rather than a syllabus. 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