In practice, the use of them is influened by many factors, the most important is the adjective verb category, the meaning of the original verb and the context.

The paper applies the category theory of the cognitive linguistics to the classification of the English vocabulary,which can be classified into three categories-basic,super-ordinate and subordinate category words,and to the exploration of the characteristics of the basic category words-simple form;high frequency;productiveness;wide use;and metaphorical nature.