Basic 850: An Online Wordbook
16 June, 2005
EP1,
or English through Pictures Book I, makes use of 226 Basic words with their different forms, 15 words for numbers, two for measures, two international names, and one for American money used internationally.
The Basic words are:
a (an), after, again, air, all, and, animal, answer, apple, arm, at
baby, back, bad, basket, be (am are is isn't was were), before, between, bird, bit, body, boiling, bone, book, bottle, box, boy, branch, bread, breath, brother, building, but, butter
cheese, chest, chin, clear, clock, cloth (clothing), coat, cold, come (came), cord, cover, cow, crush, cup
daughter, different, do (does doing), dog, door, down, drawer, dress, drink
ear, earth, egg, eye
face, family, father, finger, flame, floor, flower, food, foot (feet), for, fork, frame, from, front, fruit
get, girl, give, glass, glove, go, goat, good
hair, hand, happy, hard, hat, have, he (him his she her it its they them their), head, heat, here, high, hook, horse, house
I (me my we us our), ice, in, instrument
keep, key, knee, knife
leaf, left, leg, light, line, liquid, lock, long, low
make, man, measure, meat, milk, money, mother, motion, mountain, mouth
name, neck, new, no, nose, not, now, number
of, off, old, on, open, or, orange, other, out, over,
page, part, person, picture, pig, pipe, plane , plant, plate, pocket, pot, potato, push, put,
question,
ready, right, room, root,
salt, same, say, seat, see, sheep, shelf (shelves), ship, shoe, short, shut, side, sister, skin, soft, solid, some, son, sort, soup, spoon, steam, stem, stocking, store, street,
table, tail, take, taste, that, the, then, there, thick, thin, thing, this, through, thumb, time, to, toe, together, tooth (teeth), tray, tree, turn,
under, up
very,
wall, warm, water, when, where, who, (which, what), will, wind, window, with, woman,
yes, you.
These words are made by joining some of Basic words:
airplane, another, bookshelves, bread-box, icebox, nobody.
Words for numbers are:
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirty, forty, fifty.
Other words for measures are:
inch, yard. (You will see, among the Basic words, "foot" and "feet.")
International names:
Mr., Mrs.
The word for American money:
dollar. ¶ 17:13
The Basic words are:
a (an), after, again, air, all, and, animal, answer, apple, arm, at
baby, back, bad, basket, be (am are is isn't was were), before, between, bird, bit, body, boiling, bone, book, bottle, box, boy, branch, bread, breath, brother, building, but, butter
cheese, chest, chin, clear, clock, cloth (clothing), coat, cold, come (came), cord, cover, cow, crush, cup
daughter, different, do (does doing), dog, door, down, drawer, dress, drink
ear, earth, egg, eye
face, family, father, finger, flame, floor, flower, food, foot (feet), for, fork, frame, from, front, fruit
get, girl, give, glass, glove, go, goat, good
hair, hand, happy, hard, hat, have, he (him his she her it its they them their), head, heat, here, high, hook, horse, house
I (me my we us our), ice, in, instrument
keep, key, knee, knife
leaf, left, leg, light, line, liquid, lock, long, low
make, man, measure, meat, milk, money, mother, motion, mountain, mouth
name, neck, new, no, nose, not, now, number
of, off, old, on, open, or, orange, other, out, over,
page, part, person, picture, pig, pipe, plane , plant, plate, pocket, pot, potato, push, put,
question,
ready, right, room, root,
salt, same, say, seat, see, sheep, shelf (shelves), ship, shoe, short, shut, side, sister, skin, soft, solid, some, son, sort, soup, spoon, steam, stem, stocking, store, street,
table, tail, take, taste, that, the, then, there, thick, thin, thing, this, through, thumb, time, to, toe, together, tooth (teeth), tray, tree, turn,
under, up
very,
wall, warm, water, when, where, who, (which, what), will, wind, window, with, woman,
yes, you.
These words are made by joining some of Basic words:
airplane, another, bookshelves, bread-box, icebox, nobody.
Words for numbers are:
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirty, forty, fifty.
Other words for measures are:
inch, yard. (You will see, among the Basic words, "foot" and "feet.")
International names:
Mr., Mrs.
The word for American money:
dollar. ¶ 17:13
14 June, 2005
Sense
is one of the 400 words for general things. "Our senses," said Richards and Gibson, "seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling---are ways through which we get knowledge. Our ideas come to us through our senses" (EP 2, 150).
Sense, in addition, is what gives us ideas in a word. One word sometimes has a number of different senses. In Basic English, they are the root-sense and expansions. The word "sense," for example, has its root-sense as a physical senses, or five senses. One of its expansions is sense in a word. If it is not possible to get an idea from someone's statement, we may say: "It doesn't make sense."
Sense is sometimes good sense or common sense.
Sensing is a form of the word used in statements like this: "Animals are quick at sensing danger" (Basic by Examples). ¶ 10:38
Sense, in addition, is what gives us ideas in a word. One word sometimes has a number of different senses. In Basic English, they are the root-sense and expansions. The word "sense," for example, has its root-sense as a physical senses, or five senses. One of its expansions is sense in a word. If it is not possible to get an idea from someone's statement, we may say: "It doesn't make sense."
Sense is sometimes good sense or common sense.
Sensing is a form of the word used in statements like this: "Animals are quick at sensing danger" (Basic by Examples). ¶ 10:38
