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corps vs corpse vs corpus
The difference
| Word | Meaning | Goes with | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| corpsnoun/kɔːr/ | Meaning a special part of an army, or a group of people who do the same job together | Goes with press corps | Example Her grandfather served in the medical corps during the war. |
| corpsenoun/kɔːrps/ | Meaning the body of a dead person | Goes with rotting corpse | Example Police found a corpse in the river early on Sunday morning. |
| corpusnoun/ˈkɔːr.pəs/ | Meaning a big set of real texts or recordings used to study how a language works; also, a writer's complete works | Goes with corpus of | Example Scholars have studied the whole corpus of her poetry. |
Which word fits?
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