Definition: 'Are'

Statistics

• Length: 3 characters
• Syllables: 1

Grammatical Information

• Auxiliary Verb
• Copula Verb
• Auxiliary verbs are used to show tense, aspect and voice, as well as in forming questions and negatives
• Copula (also called copular or linking verbs) verbs connect the subject to the complement
• A verb describes an action or a state
• A verb can include information about the duration, time of the action or state, the people involved and whether it is habitual, complete or not

Lexical Information

• One of the 220 words in the Dolch high frequency list
• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• Common word- this is one of the thousand words most frequently used in English.
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula