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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

which sentence is correct in English?:
1- This person has similar ideas with mine
2- This person has similar ideas with me
  

Top answer

Anonymous 1- This person has similar ideas with mine More common: 1- This person has similar ideas as mine.

— Dimsumexpress

  • Anonymous 1- This person has similar ideas with mine More common: 1- This person has similar ideas as mine.
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Anonymous1- This person has similar ideas with mine
More common: 1- This person has similar ideas as mine.
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Correct: This person has ideas similar to mine.
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similar is never followed by 'as', always 'to'
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I agree with MM's version. Idiomatically, " to" is correct.
Anonymous
But I don't agree with: similar is never followed by 'as', always 'to'

Unless these writers also got it wrong.

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Your first reference appears to apply to the structure under discussion, dimsum, but your second does not. The full text reads: The triangles shown are similar as their corresponding angle is congruent and the sides including this angle are proportional. Here, as = because.
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Understood Mr. M
Mister MicawberHere, as = because.
The disagreement was about "never followed...".
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