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As and like are prepositions or conjunctions. The prepositions as and like have
different meanings. As + noun means in the role of, like + noun means
similar to or in the same way as.
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Like your father, Ill help you The speaker is not the father but wishes to act
as much as I can. in a similar way to the father.
Like the other students, he finds it a bit difficult to get to lectures early in the
morning.
The conjunctions as and like have the same meaning when used in
comparisons. Like is a little more informal.
Warning:
As as a conjunction
As the forecast predicted, the weather was dreadful for the whole of the
weekend.
The same as
See also:
We use as to introduce two events happening at the same time. After as with
this meaning, we usually use a simple (rather than continuous) form of the
verb:
As the show increases in popularity, more and more tickets are sold daily.
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When you get older, moving house One thing happens first and as a result the
gets harder. second thing is true.
As you get older, moving house
gets harder.
The two things happen at the same time.
Warning:
They gave them gifts such as flowers and fruit and sang a special welcome
song.
Like
We use like to talk about things or people which we enjoy or feel positive
about:
like + -ing
like + wh-clause
Id like to enquire about the Sales Manager position which you have
advertised
Like means similar to. We often use it with verbs of the senses such as look,
sound, feel, taste, seem:
When we use like to mean similar to, we can put words and phrase such as a
bit, just, very, so and more before it to talk about the degree of similarity:
Isnt that just like the bike we bought you for your birthday?
Like as a conjunction
Like any good cook book will tell you, dont let the milk boil. (or As any good
cook book )
Like as a suffix
We can use like as a suffix at the end of a noun to mean similar to:
In informal speaking, you will hear like used very commonly. It has a number
of functions. It is important not to use these forms in formal writing such as
academic essays.
Filler
We can use like to fill in the silence when we need time to think about what to
say next or how to rephrase what we have just said:
I want to like I think we need to think carefully about it. Its like its
a very difficult decision for us to make.
Focusing attention
We can use like to bring attention to what we are going to say next. We do this
especially when talking about quantities and times:
There were like five hundred guests at the wedding. (like brings focus to the
large number of guests)
It wasnt till like 12:00 that I actually got to start on the project. (like brings
focus to how late it was)
We can use like at the end of what we say to modify or soften what we have
just said especially if we are not sure if it was the right thing to say:
Reported speech
Jason was like Im not going to Almas party because Chris is going to be
there and Im like hes so afraid of Chris. (in the first use of like, it means he
said, but in the second use it means I thought)
Its like when you go to the airport and you keep thinking that you have
forgotten something important.
Everyone is always saying hello to Bob. Its like being married to a superstar!
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