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Layla1234 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

feel like

I feel like as if I had a cold/the flu or I feel like having a cold/th flu which sentence is better?
  

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I feel as if I have a cold / the flu. I feel like I have a cold / the flu. I felt as if I had a cold / the flu.

— GPY

  • I feel as if I have a cold / the flu.
  • I feel like I have a cold / the flu.
  • I felt as if I had a cold / the flu.
  • I felt like I had a cold / the flu.
  • "as if" is technically more correct, but "like" is very common in everyday language.
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I feel as if I have a cold / the flu.
I feel like I have a cold / the flu.

I felt as if I had a cold / the flu.
I felt like I had a cold / the flu.

"as if" is technically more correct, but "like" is very common in everyday language.
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ok so is it possible to use the 1st sentence as well:

I feel like having a cold or it sounds strange and is unacceptable
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AnonymousI feel like having a cold or it sounds strange and is unacceptable
It sounds strange, as if having a cold is something you want to do. These are valid uses of "feel like having":

"I feel like having fun."
"I feel like having a cup of tea."
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