
Market Day
- Reading time
- 3 min
- Total words
- 306
- Unique words
- 72
- Avg frequency
- #163
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Words in this story
| # | Freq | Word |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | youThe word a speaker uses for the person or people they are talking to. |
| 2 | 2 | IThe word a speaker uses to talk about themselves as the subject of a sentence. |
| 3 | 3 | beTo exist, or to join a subject to a word that describes what or how it is. |
| 4 | 4 | theUsed before a noun when the listener already knows which person or thing you mean. |
| 5 | 5 | toShows direction or a target, and also goes before a verb to make its basic form (the infinitive). |
| 6 | 6 | aUsed before a noun to talk about one person or thing for the first time, when it is not a special or known one. |
| 7 | 7 | itStands for a thing, an animal, or an idea already mentioned, and can also start a sentence about weather or time. |
| 8 | 10 | andJoins two words, phrases, or sentences together to add one to another. |
| 9 | 11 | ofShows that one thing belongs to, is part of, or comes from another. |
| 10 | 12 | inShows that something is inside a place, time, or situation. |
| 11 | 13 | haveTo own or hold something, or to help make a past tense (have, has, had). |
| 12 | 17 | thisPoints to a person or thing that is near, or the one you are talking about right now. |
| 13 | 19 | heStands for a man or boy already mentioned, when he is the subject of the sentence. |
| 14 | 20 | forShows who or what something is meant to help, or the reason or length of time for something. |
| 15 | 21 | goTo move or travel from one place to another. |
| 16 | 26 | noNot any, or used to give a negative answer. |
| 17 | 27 | notUsed to make a word or sentence mean the opposite, or to say something is untrue. |
| 18 | 29 | withShows that people or things are together, or names the tool used to do something. |
| 19 | 30 | butJoins two ideas to show a difference or a surprise between them. |
| 20 | 38 | theyStands for two or more people or things already mentioned, when they are the subject of the sentence. |
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