It’s interesting that the most common verbs in many languages are irregular. Be, have, do and go often also serve as auxiliaries, combined with other verbs to express tense and other grammatical information, as in He is jogging, He has jogged, He didn’t jog, He is going to jog. Many language scientists believe that the meanings of these verbs – existence, possession, action, motion – are at the core of all verbs, if only metaphorically. For example, the mind treats telling her a story as causing the story to go to her resulting in her having it, and treats dying as going out of existence.
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