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Nina_Nia Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

I feel like

Hello,

Is the expression to feel like informal and more common in the US?
Eg,
They feel like they study every minute of every day.
I feel like going for a walk.

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Hi, The idiom to feel like something / doing something (= to want to have or do something) is common and informal, but it is used only in your second sentence. 1. They feel like they study twenty-four seven.

  • Hi, The idiom to feel like something / doing something (= to want to have or do something) is common and informal, but it is used only in your second sentence.
  • 1.
  • They feel like they study twenty-four seven.
  • (= every minute of every day) -- Feel like can be substituted for feel as if : "They feel as if they study twenty-four seven".
  • Here, feel like in not an idiom.
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Hi,
The idiom to feel like something / doing something (= to want to have or do something) is common and informal,

but it is used only in your second sentence.

1. They feel like they study twenty-four seven. (= every minute of every day) -- Feel like can be substituted for

feel as if: "They feel as if they study twenty-fou

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