what is the most commonly used adjective in the english language
one
title: English articles text: "The" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. "The" can be used with both singular and plural nouns, with nouns of any gender, and with nouns that start with any letter. This is different from many other languages which have different articles for different genders and/or numbers. Since "the" is one of the most frequently used words in English, at various times short abbreviations for it have been found: Occasional proposals have been made by individuals for an abbreviation. In 1916, Legros & Grant included in their classic printers' handbook "Typographical title: Adjective text: Adjective In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified. Adjectives are one of the English parts of speech, although they were historically classed together with the nouns. Certain words that were traditionally considered to be adjectives, including "the", "this", "my", etc., are today usually classed separately, as determiners. "Adjective" comes from Latin "" "additional (noun)", a calque of . In the grammatical tradition of Latin and Greek, because adjectives were inflected for gender, number, and case like title: The text: King James Version of the Bible in places such as Romans 15:29, or in the Mayflower Compact. Historically, the article was never pronounced with a "y" sound, even when so written. The The is a grammatical article in English, denoting person(s) or thing(s) already mentioned, under discussion, implied, or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners or readers. It is the only definite article in English. "The" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which merged in Middle English and now has a single title: English language text: as "good", "better", and "best". Other adjectives have comparatives formed by periphrastic constructions, with the adverb "more" marking the comparative, and "most" marking the superlative: "happier" or "more happy", "the happiest" or "most happy". There is some variation among speakers regarding which adjectives use inflected or periphrastic comparison, and some studies have shown a tendency for the periphrastic forms to become more common at the expense of the inflected form. English pronouns conserve many traits of case and gender inflection. The personal pronouns retain a difference between subjective and objective case in most persons ("I/me, he/him, she/her, we/us, they/them") as title: English language text: have learned it as a second language than there are native speakers. English is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, and it is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia. It is a co-official language of the United Nations, the European Union and many other world and regional international organisations. It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch. English has a vast vocabulary, though counting how many words any language has is