Taking the three English verbs,＂ divide＂ ,＂ separate＂ and ＂part＂ , as examples, it retrieved language features as their fluencies, registers and regular collocations of nouns and adverbs in COCA in this paper. Then these data were collected to probe into their actual uses to illustrate that the research approach of corpus linguistics has a supplementary role in synonym discrimination, so as to provide references to lexic...
