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[clomper]

hi guys..

I don't know if this is the correct forum to post this but do you guys have a list of the most common English words being used daily? It would be a nice lesson to give to the students so that they won't keep repeating the same words over and over again..

A website or a file about this topic will be greatly appreciated!

Claudine

[MarcusK]

http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/vocab/wordlists/vocfreq.html
Here's a page with links to some lists of words that might be what you're looking for.

[Ludwig]

Here we go again; what, exactly, do you mean by 'word'? Do you really think there could ever be a non-complex answer to this question? Do you actually think you have asked a coherent question? What do you mean by 'used'? In what register? In which part of the English-speaking world?

Anyway, you will need to look into corpus linguistics. The following is a list (compiled through corpus linguistics 'concordancing' software) of the most frequent word-forms from the 100-million-word British National Corpus accounting for more than 40% of the word-forms in modern English texts (drawn from a wide range of registers):

the, is/was/be/are/�s/were/been/�re/�m/am, of, and, a/an, in/inside (preposition), to (infinitive verb marker), have/has/have/�ve/�s/had/having/�d, he/him/his, it/its, I/me/my, to (preposition), they/them/their, not/n�t/no (interjection), for, you/your, she/her, with, on, that (conjunction), this/these, that (demonstrative)/those, do/did/does/done/doing, we/us/our, by, at, but (conjunction), �s (possessive), from, as, which, or, will/�ll, said/say/says/saying, would, what, there (existential), if, can, all, who/whose, so (adverb/conjunction), go/went/gone/goes, more, other/another, one (numeral)

I am willing to bet you did not expect that.

[clomper]

no.. I didn't expect it.. but it would be useful as well.. I'm thinking more of verbs and adjectives to describe or explain an event, person or their surroundings. Something that are normally use in a sentence.

Claudine