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An example use of fall in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… it after having a fall at the end of …”
Fall is the act of coming or going down from a higher place, or the state of being in that state.
the word fall occurs in english on average 111.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that fall can be often used in the following areas:
1) people, society, and culture;