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diff --git a/source/var/english-stop-words.txt b/source/var/english-stop-words.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..497a1f96 --- /dev/null +++ b/source/var/english-stop-words.txt @@ -0,0 +1,311 @@ + + | 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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