Abstract
This study investigates two English synonymous nouns, e.g. alternative and option, concentrating their senses of meanings, collocations, and grammatical patterns. The sources of data used in this study are 1) Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online (LDOCE) and 2) the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). It was revealed that the two synonyms share the same core meaning, but still differ in terms of their senses of meanings, collocations, and grammatical patterns. For this reason, the two words cannot be used interchangeable in all contexts. In addition, the findings indicate that corpus data could provide some additional data which cannot be retrieved in the learner dictionary.
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