The Basic Steel Agreement between the United Steelworkers and the major steelmakers had an Article 2(B), which made all sorts of past practices into contract terms. Which led to the obvious question . . . . Great quiz by the way.
I actually did a lot better thinking about it in French. I can't remember ever learning verbs in English (just what a verb was) so I was like okay there's etre, avoir, aller, faire, parler, and so on. :-)
Modal verbs are more like adverbs than verbs, in that they modify another verb. "I can go" means I have the ability to go. "I might go" indicates the probability of my going. "I must go" indicates the imperative nature of my going. They have no verb aspect on their own.
The UN voted to kick Taiwan out of the dictionary and grant Palestine observer status ... However, these votes don't reflect the actual situation on the ground.
After writing about a dozen words down, I started to tune in to the dialogue in "Better Call Saul," which was playing in the other room, and got interested in listening for common verbs. I forgot to think of my own words and just wrote down common verbs that came up in the dialogue -- and ended up with 33, just from a few minutes of dialogue! I guess that was a pretty strong demonstration of how common these words really are :-)
28/60, the average is 19 (so beat 82,3%), pleased enough with that, though personally I hoped I would ve gotten more (below 65% right feels kinda like failing), missed a few abvious ones like do and get. But also got many onf the lower ones like mean begin become believe. But some that I didnt get I would never have guessed. Like provide and include. Several I expected to be there but werent, some of their counterparts were there. LIke begin but not end, start but not stop, livebut not die. Etc, but fun to do :)
I'm mean to people who I feel deserve it. If they leave a comment directed at me or someone else that is needlessly disrespectful or insulting, as online comments so often are, I will be disrespectful right back at this person. If they pop in to say something bigoted or ignorant, or to spread misinformation, I will correct their bias or ignorance and others might misconstrue this as being mean when I'm simply being truthful. At other times I'm simply sharing my point of view or making a factual statement and other people take this as mean because they feel under attack whenever their own beliefs are called into question; but this isn't meanness it's honesty. In the cases where I am really being mean it's because I have little patience with people who display some of those characteristics I listed above. I realize that my impatience means I don't always come across as nice, but I care very little how people here perceive me. I care about truth, respect, honesty; not being liked.
A five year old hits another five year old. When asked why he did it, the kid said "He hit me first". Glad most adults grow out of this by learning to ignore or forgive and don't "pull a Kal".
And your comment here, making a personal attack in response to a 15 month old comment, along with 20 other rather snide comments you left today, is you demonstrating the adult skill of forgiveness? or ignorance?
As to why I comment on "everything," I don't, but I have been visiting this site daily since the end of 2012 and I enjoy the back-and-forth in the comments section so over time the number of comments I've left have slowly accumulated.
Yeah, I understand Kal. Even I see Some people spreading false information and what I hate even more is when people believe it. Well, at least you're there for those kinds of people.
Problem with all corpora is that they're based on written English. I believe there are a few based on spoken English; would be interesting to have a quiz based on one of those.
Most Common English Adjectives
More Google Suggestions Than You Can ______
Most Googled Words 2004-2013
Pord Wuzzle
have fun.
Maybe it's because I'm doing this quiz to stay awake near the end of a 40-hour software rollout.
'To be' isn't anything in Latin
But yes, 'to be' is an infinitive.
'That seems fine to me'
'Not as good as they seem'
At least I got 36 of them.
Well, maybe in a couple of years ;) (don't like to redo a quiz when it is still in my memory, it needs to feel new)
See you then.
They also seem to pay for a lot without ever buying anything.
I always feel like crying when you miss the really obvious one and you clearly know it.