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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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