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Although it would be better to know which form of these words is for sure the most frequent, it won’t be a bad idea to learn the main “head” words.  What is meant by this is that many of these words may get their high frequency not just from being verbs, but from being used as other parts of speech too.  For example, “act” could be a noun as in “he was putting on an act” or “I saw the final act.”

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