GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
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Question
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20, 000
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40, 000
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80, 000
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50, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -British linguist David Crystal states that most adults would know around 50, 000 words easily, if not 75, 000. To find out the size of your vocabulary, he suggests, “taking a sample of about 20 or 30 pages from a medium-sized dictionary, one which contains about 100, 000 entries or 1, 000 to 1, 500 pages.
Detailed explanation-2: -The dictionary also expands every year to keep up with new words that are invented to describe the world around us, or to include new meanings for words that already exist in English. A more useful number from the Oxford English Dictionary would be the 171, 476 words that are in current use.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to a recently conducted study by The Economist, most adult native speakers of the English language, who took their vocabulary test, have a range from 20, 000 to 35, 000 words.
Detailed explanation-4: -Adults who are native English speakers tend to have a vocabulary of 15, 000 to 30, 000 words, depending on who you ask and what you mean by vocabulary.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1986 McCrum et al. said this to a Public Broadcasting System audience of millions: Shakespeare had one of the largest vocabularies of any English writer, some 30, 000 words.