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A Corpus-Based Study of the Synonyms "Cease," "Halt," and "Stop"
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Chaengchenkit, Rangsiya – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study aims to investigate the distribution across genres and the collocation of three synonymous verbs "cease," "halt," and "stop." Data were drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The results from the distribution across genres shed light on the degree of formality of each verb. The verb…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Verbs