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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by Harry Smith View Post
How many words do native english speakers use in their daily life? I have no idea. Can they use more than 1500 if we don't count all those aticles and particles?
Yes, I believe they can and they do. By all acounts, a 1500 word vocabulary is very limted

My previous post, according to this site's text analyzer contained 146 unique words. That was a brief communication on one subject.
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