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General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean,
dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful;
boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished,
free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married,
pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect,
come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear,
help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let
(=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make,
may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play,
put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop,
suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch,
will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves,
yourselves, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody,
anything, any, either, much, many.
Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to
the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally,
sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time),
then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just,
not, too much, more, less.
Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then
(=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
Co-ordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose,
which, that.
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