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- | An English stop word list. Comments begin with vertical bar. Each stop
- | word is at the start of a line.
-
- | Many of the forms below are quite rare (e.g. "yourselves") but included for
- | completeness.
-
- | PRONOUNS FORMS
- | 1st person sing
-
-i | subject, always in upper case of course
-
-me | object
-my | possessive adjective
- | the possessive pronoun `mine' is best suppressed, because of the
- | sense of coal-mine etc.
-myself | reflexive
- | 1st person plural
-we | subject
-
-| us | object
- | care is required here because US = United States. It is usually
- | safe to remove it if it is in lower case.
-our | possessive adjective
-ours | possessive pronoun
-ourselves | reflexive
- | second person (archaic `thou' forms not included)
-you | subject and object
-your | possessive adjective
-yours | possessive pronoun
-yourself | reflexive (singular)
-yourselves | reflexive (plural)
- | third person singular
-he | subject
-him | object
-his | possessive adjective and pronoun
-himself | reflexive
-
-she | subject
-her | object and possessive adjective
-hers | possessive pronoun
-herself | reflexive
-
-it | subject and object
-its | possessive adjective
-itself | reflexive
- | third person plural
-they | subject
-them | object
-their | possessive adjective
-theirs | possessive pronoun
-themselves | reflexive
- | other forms (demonstratives, interrogatives)
-what
-which
-who
-whom
-this
-that
-these
-those
-
- | VERB FORMS (using F.R. Palmer's nomenclature)
- | BE
-am | 1st person, present
-is | -s form (3rd person, present)
-are | present
-was | 1st person, past
-were | past
-be | infinitive
-been | past participle
-being | -ing form
- | HAVE
-have | simple
-has | -s form
-had | past
-having | -ing form
- | DO
-do | simple
-does | -s form
-did | past
-doing | -ing form
-
- | The forms below are, I believe, best omitted, because of the significant
- | homonym forms:
-
- | He made a WILL
- | old tin CAN
- | merry month of MAY
- | a smell of MUST
- | fight the good fight with all thy MIGHT
-
- | would, could, should, ought might however be included
-
- | | AUXILIARIES
- | | WILL
- |will
-
-would
-
- | | SHALL
- |shall
-
-should
-
- | | CAN
- |can
-
-could
-
- | | MAY
- |may
- |might
- | | MUST
- |must
- | | OUGHT
-
-ought
-
- | COMPOUND FORMS, increasingly encountered nowadays in 'formal' writing
- | pronoun + verb
-
-i'm
-you're
-he's
-she's
-it's
-we're
-they're
-i've
-you've
-we've
-they've
-i'd
-you'd
-he'd
-she'd
-we'd
-they'd
-i'll
-you'll
-he'll
-she'll
-we'll
-they'll
-
- | verb + negation
-
-isn't
-aren't
-wasn't
-weren't
-hasn't
-haven't
-hadn't
-doesn't
-don't
-didn't
-
- | auxiliary + negation
-
-won't
-wouldn't
-shan't
-shouldn't
-can't
-cannot
-couldn't
-mustn't
-
- | miscellaneous forms
-
-let's
-that's
-who's
-what's
-here's
-there's
-when's
-where's
-why's
-how's
-
- | rarer forms
-
- | daren't needn't
-
- | doubtful forms
-
- | oughtn't mightn't
-
- | ARTICLES
-a
-an
-the
-
- | THE REST (Overlap among prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs etc is so
- | high, that classification is pointless.)
-and
-but
-if
-or
-because
-as
-until
-while
-
-of
-at
-by
-for
-with
-about
-against
-between
-into
-through
-during
-before
-after
-above
-below
-to
-from
-up
-down
-in
-out
-on
-off
-over
-under
-
-again
-further
-then
-once
-
-here
-there
-when
-where
-why
-how
-
-all
-any
-both
-each
-few
-more
-most
-other
-some
-such
-
-no
-nor
-not
-only
-own
-same
-so
-than
-too
-very
-
- | Just for the record, the following words are among the commonest in English
-
- | one
- | every
- | least
- | less
- | many
- | now
- | ever
- | never
- | say
- | says
- | said
- | also
- | get
- | go
- | goes
- | just
- | made
- | make
- | put
- | see
- | seen
- | whether
- | like
- | well
- | back
- | even
- | still
- | way
- | take
- | since
- | another
- | however
- | two
- | three
- | four
- | five
- | first
- | second
- | new
- | old
- | high
- | long
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