counsel n
adj special, legal, chief, outside, senior, corporate noun office^ house^ president, defense^ ·law, independents, deputy^ generaL, investigation, committee verb appoint, seeL, ·investigate, servev represent, offer, name, hire», advise, act 9055 | 0.90 S
associate n
adj senior, close, closest, longtime, consulting, financial, junior, regional, postdoctoral, long-time noun research, business^ friend,, ·degree, family^ presidents, company, consultant, ·professor, survey verb earn^ engage, hire, cope, conduct, complete, design, consult, ·clean, contacts 8772 | 0.93 N
major n
26. Variation in past tense forms
English has variation with forms of the simple past (he dived/dove into the pool) and past participle (he had proved/proven his point). The variant A in the following tables is the most frequent form in these pairs, and the rightmost column (A+B) shows the total number of tokens for both A and B in the corpus. Note that in some cases, the raw frequency masks semantic differences between the two forms, such as he shined the shoes (transitive) / the sun shone brightly (intransitive).
Simple past (he dove/dived into the pool) Л B
%A
A+B
learned
learnt
1.00
22105
drank
drunk
1.00
5522
sank
sunk
0.99
3315
forbade
forbad
0.99
544
spilled
spilt
0.98
1213
hung
hanged
0.97
8514
burned
burnt
0.95
3970
lit
lighted
0.94
3896
thrived
throve
0.93
708
knelt
kneeled
0.91
1917
dreamed
dreamt
0.86
2759
strove
strived
0.85
317
shone
shined
0.83
1954
sprang
sprung
0.81
2303
wove
weaved
0.75
683
bade
bid
0.74
338
spat
spit
0.67
863
dove
dived
0.65
832
shrank
shrunk
0.62
904
knitted
knit
0.59
121
leaped
leapt
0.57
2942
stunk
stank
0.55
472
sneaked
snuck
0.54
1086
adj English, double, open, professional, retired, liberal, female, declared, prospective, triple noun ·league, education^ ·general, player, college, minister^ science, sergeants, undergraduate^ music verb winv involve, play, leadv report, command, offer, retire^ face, pitch 8758 | 0.93 N
3247 distinguish v
noun ·type, group, ability., difference, characteristic, feature, .form, .reality, .species, factor., .object, quality, attempt., behavior, approach misc .from, .between, .other, .themselves, able., difficult., clearly 9045 | 0.90 A
3248 menu n
Past participle (he had proved / proven his point) Л B
%A
A+B
swelled
swollen
1.00
783
thrived
thriven
1.00
286
learned
learnt
0.99
21522
forgotten
forgot
0.99
9965
woven
weaved
0.99
1525
struck
stricken
0.99
7257
shrunk
shrunken
0.98
1043
spilled
spilt
0.98
1166
shown
showed
0.97
31298
forbidden
forbade
0.97
2209
shaved
shaven
0.97
755
sown
sowed
0.95
364
dreamed
dreamt
0.93
2373
lit
lighted
0.91
3999
woken
waked
0.89
604
burned
burnt
0.89
6606
beaten
beat
0.89
5643
hung
hanged
0.88
5912
lied
lay
0.88
1367
mowed
mown
0.88
148
knelt
kneeled
0.87
76
bitten
bit
0.86
1398
got
gotten
0.85
144451
bid
bidden
0.84
232
sheared
shorn
0.81
469
shone
shined
0.79
189
spit
spat
0.74
473
sewn
sewed
0.73
1000
sawed
sawn
0.71
124
knit
knitted
0.68
320
striven
strived
0.66
146
sneaked
snuck
0.57
301
laid
lain
0.56
9191
leaped
leapt
0.55
328
proved
proven
0.51
9516
adj regular, tasting, full, vegetarian, main, extensive noun item, restaurant, dinner, dish, option, start., food, lunch., choice, bar verb .include, offer, feature, serve, choose, create, plan., order, read, list 9251 | 0.88 N
awful j
noun lot, thing, time, day, place, truth, moment, night, feeling, noise, news, stuff misc there, feel, something, happen, sound, pretty, spend
8718 | 0.93 S F
wound n
adj old, self-inflicted, deep, gaping, bleeding, multiple, surgical, fatal, mortal, emotional noun gunshot, head, healing, war, blood, bullet, stabv puncture^, body verb heal, inflict, diev suffer, open, lick, treat, clean, close, cause 8617 | 0.94 F
manufacturing n
adj light, computer-aided, Japanese, advanced, chemical, high-tech, traditional noun company, ·job, ·process, ·sector, ·plant, industry, design, technology, ·facility, service verb lose, develop, employ, decline, improve, ·rise, outsource, ·account, own, eliminate 9280 | 0.88 A
consumption n
adj high, human, low, conspicuous, domestic, total, public, increased, mass, personal noun energy^ alcohoL, production, fueL, food, level, oil, pattern, percent, water verb reduce^, increase, cut, rise, limit, encourage, relate, ·decline, decrease, lower 9339 | 0.87 A
permission n
adj written, prior, special, parental, official, following, express, explicit noun ·information, parent, government, ·publisher, request, ·slip, court, author, department, form verb givev ask, get, reprint, use, grant, obtain, needv receive^, seek 8552 | 0.95
twelve m
·year, ·hour, ten, ·old, ·month, ·day, about, ·ago, ·foot, age^, ·hundred, ·later, ·thousand, ·thirteen
8836 | 0.92 F