“A whole new world… wait, is it a whole, entire, or total world?” : the extraction of collocations for the three English synonym discrimination
This study investigated three synonymous adjectives, ‘whole’, ‘entire’, and ‘total’, in terms of their collocations and strict sense of meaning. Data were drawn from three English dictionaries: 1) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (online version), 2) Merriam-Webster's Learner's...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2022
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Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20091/1/47958-187247-1-PB.pdf |