Near Synonymy Analysis of Three Adverbials: Surprisingly, Astonishingly and Amazingly

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent similarities and differences among one-word adverbials (surprisingly, astonishingly, amazingly) in terms meaning, register collocational constraints. These are considered roughly synonymous one another. But we should be skeptical about their full synonymy, though dictionary meanings show that these words can substitutable with In order demonstrate meanings, three standard dictionaries English were used. As for two synonymy discriminations Also, Corpus Contemporary American (COCA) was analyzed provide further understanding According findings, given as interchangeable meaning synonyms another, they actually not completely Rather, differ shades meanings. That why near-synonyms. findings revealed differed from another frequency occurrences use across registers a great extent. Finally, showed mostly collocate enough post-modifier. However, only surprisingly pre-modifier.