27 Most Common English Verbs Quiz

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27 Most Common English Verbs Quiz

by mikschmvlg

Created Dec 13, 2010 in Language
Featured Dec 19, 2010
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	lukemac:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 04:24 GMT	32 points
	"To sporcle" should definitely be a bonus answer! Really good quiz.

	sporcling123:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 05:08 GMT	26 points
	To sporcle, or not to sporcle. That is the quiz-tion.

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	marpocky:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 06:10 GMT	13 points
	Very surprised at #27. Unless maybe they were counting C code.

	sivi125:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 06:39 GMT	24 points
	include? more common than like, put, wait, or start? very weird...I almost never use that word

	micahf:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 06:53 GMT	37 points
	interesting how "want," "take," and "get" are all more common English words than "give"

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	NightOwl:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 07:11 GMT	2 points
	Include???

	cripple_creek:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 07:28 GMT	9 points
	I would have thought "run" would be there before some of these. The American Heritage Dictionary has no less than 59 different definitions of "run" as a verb!

	beatrixkiddo:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 08:13 GMT	9 points
	the answers to these quizzes always surprise me. for example the 2 answers at 26 and 27, i would never have guessed these before 'to like' or 'to love'.

	RetroGirl:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 09:01 GMT	18 points
	Fun quiz. I did a lot of my thinking in Spanish. It helped me zero in on common words I take for granted in my native English. I was also surprised at the absence of put and set. Set is another of those with dozens of definitions in the dictionary...

	sunny1192:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 10:04 GMT	5 points
	@ShadowGamer: Yup, better drain the beer out of that goblin before it realizes what you're up to... ;-)

	dudemanbearpig:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 10:13 GMT	19 points
	7 is a country in Africa.

	kajhaj:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 10:22 GMT	9 points
	Nice quiz. I started going through song lyrics in my head, writing every verb that came up, worked surprisingly well, at least 10 of them came through doing that!

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	Spelvout:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 12:19 GMT	10 points
	In true christmas spirit, who got 'to give' before 'to get'?

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	Bretzky:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 14:01 GMT	1 point
	To "question" he said, but not to "ask."

	hikeeba:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 14:10 GMT	14 points
	#3 or #3 not - there is no #23

	WackyZacky:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 14:49 GMT	11 points
	All work and no play...

	mikschmvlg:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 15:05 GMT	15 points
	This game was created for my dear students (10b secondary school in Calw). I wouldn't have thought it would be that successful... Thanks for publishing it!

	dancastro:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 15:15 GMT	13 points
	For those who wondered about the number of answers (why 27 and not 25 or 30?): the source mentions that the 25 most common verbs are one-syllabe words (after more than 17,000 plays nobody noticed it... neither did I, of course!) and then it says that the first two-syllabe verbs are "become" and "include" (# 26 and 27). So the author of the quiz used all the data available at the source webpage.

	mikschmvlg:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 15:30 GMT	6 points
	@dancastro: Indeed :)

	rudyfernandez5:	Dec 19th, 2010 at 16:15 GMT	5 points
	Yeah I just used spanish verbs too (the reason why I typed (to) be twice). Suprised by no "like" or "put" or even "turn" since you turn on lights/tv/ext.