The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the types take part in and participate in in the COCA and BNC. It is worthwhile noting that the types take part in and participate in show the same property in the three genres of the COCA, but they show a different property in the five genres. When it comes to the Euclidean distance, it is worth mentioning that two types show deep similarities in the web genre of the COCA, whereas they show deep similarities in the fiction genre of the BNC. It is worth pointing out that take part in and participate in reveal the same pattern in the three genres of the BNC, but they reveal a different pattern in the four genres. The COCA clearly indicates that the expressions take part in activities and take part in sports are the most preferable ones for Americans, followed by take part in community (take part in research), take part in discussions, take part in events (take part in talks), and take part in government, in descending order. The COCA clearly shows, on the other hand, that the expression participate in sports is the most preferred by Americans, followed by participate in activities, participate in community, participate in politics, participate in class, and participate in discussions, in that order. Finally, this paper argues that 22% of forty nine nouns are the collocations of both take part in and participate in. From this, it can be inferred that the types take part in and participate in are synonymously used, but they are slightly different from each other in their use.