A Corpus-based Contrastive Study on Advise and Suggest

Abstract

This paper explores difference between Advise and Suggest in the fields of collocation, semantic prosody and register. Under the aid of the British National Corpus (BNC), the author collects and samples evidence accordingly, finds out great difference between them, and points out some false friends we make everyday. Analyzed in a more scientific way, this paper aims to provide a corpus-based method for readers to perceive English words.