A Study of Synonyms Based on COCA Corpus Road and Street as Examples

There are a large number of near-synonyms in English, differentiating these words have always been one the major difficulties English learning. The participation corpus provides new approach to identification near-synonyms.Based on Corpus Contemporary American (COCA), this study identifies Road and Street, group terms register, collocation semantic rhyme, results show that main difference between prosody is lexical collocation.The purpose paper help learners further improve their vocabulary recognition skills by means corpus.