Collocational Patterns of the Synonyms Join, Participate, and Attend

This article is a corpus-based study, exploring three synonymous verbs: “join,” “participate,” and “attend,” in terms of the degree of formality and collocation. The data were derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results demonstrated that “participate” is the most for...

The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies

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