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This essay reports a corpus comparison of three near-synonyms, ENSURE, ASSURE and INSURE. The data for the investigation were taken from BNC (British National Corpus) and CLEC (Chinese Learner English Corpus). AntConc 3.4.4 (Anthony, 2014), Loglikelihood and Chi-square Calculator 1.0(Liang Maocheng, BFSU) and Sketch Engine were used to process the corpus data. More specifically, they were used to identify and calculate the frequencies, collocates, colligations and Semantic preferences of ENSURE, ASSURE and INSURE. The findings were reported below and teaching implications were discussed.