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A corpus-based study on the English synonyms: respond, reply, and answer
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This study examined three synonymous verbs in English, namely respond, reply, and answer, concerning their grammatical patterns, collocations, and degree of formality compared and contrast between British English and American English.
Description
The data were drawn from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online and two corpora, namely the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).
It was discovered that these three verbs cannot be used interchangeably in every context. Regarding the shared patterns as well as the different patterns, each word has its distinguishing pattern. In terms of collocations, only the word question/questions can co-occur with all three verbs.
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For the degree of formality, the results showed that respond can be used in both formal and informal contexts. However, when considering the frequency of occurrence in the academic genre, respond occurred more often than answer and reply, so it can be concluded that it is the most formal word. The results also revealed no significant difference between American and British native speakers in terms of the usage of these three synonymous verbs.
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- Languages and literature
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- English language · Linguistics
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