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BASIC ENGLISH,
OR MODERN LANGUAGE METHODOLOGY FROM AN EASY CHAIR ⁴

4 . By Eugene Spendiaroff. University of Leningrad. High School Journal. 19:151-3. 172. May 1936.

THE VERB SYSTEM IN BASIC ENGLISH ⁵

come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do, have, say, see, send, may, will

came, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, take, do,

Interject

to put a word in;

planting

puts

in the earth.

break

go against

they put him to death,

they killed him.

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RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS
Construction, with examples		Occurrences
		StE	BE
1.	Verb in all tenses (I go, am going, went, shall go, etc.)	107	83
2.	Modal auxiliary plus infinitive without “td’ (I may go, I could have gone, etc.)	15	7
3.	Verb plus infinitive (I want to go, etc.) ....	11	3
4.	Verb plus noun (I put the question, etc.)	5	18
5.	Verb plus noun plus preposition (I do damage to [the house], etc.)	1	8
6.	Verb plus preposition plus noun (I put [him] to death, etc.)	0	4
7.	Verb plus preposition-adverb (I gave but, etc.)	2	4
8.	Verb plus adjective (I got ready, I made [things] hot, etc.)	2	6
9.	Verb plus adjective plus infinitive (I am able to sing, etc.)	3	9

I put the question

ich habe eine Frage gestellt

’ai pose une question.

I do damage to . . .

to, at

against

I had a look at him.

I put [him] to death

I gave out

give up

give out

put up (I put up with him

(I got ready, I made [things] hot)

I made things hot for him,

get

(I am able to sing)

may

-ing

he was living there

he lived there.

I come, I am coming; I came, I was coming.

to be

-ing

I see, I am seen; I saw, I was seen,

I gave up the job, the job was given up by me,

Paradigm

reply (I gave him a reply)

to reply (I will reply to him).

-ing,

detail, detailing; move, moving.

-ing

I was detailing my ideas

detailing

-ed,

my ideas were detailed by me,

I detailed

have detailed

my ideas,

-ed

Paradigm

married

marry

boiling

boiling water

boil

boiled

damage the house

do damage to the house.

give out

put up with,

-ed

-ing

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