Like and as

I'd say that, in the examples you've given, they are interchangeable.

Yet, if you omit the "does", the meaning changes: "she dresses like her mother" => she wears the same kind of clothes as her mother. // "She dresses as her mother" => she dresses so as to impersonate her mother.

Likewise: "she works like a slave" (that's my favourite example!) => she works as much as a

both seem ok to me, although in the UK we'd be more likely to say "dresses like...", or "dresses the same as...", rather than "dresses as..."

Hi pieanne,
thanks for your answers . Yes, I wondered if you can say "she dresseslike/as her mother", and thanks

Thanks, Tidus!

I've got another question. Can I say: "Sometimes you sound just like/as my mum!"?
Can I replace "like" with "as"?

I'd always use "like".

But then, I'm not a native, as you can see!

Pieanne may not be a native, but she's right!

Thank you both .

Have a nice evening!

I'd always use 'like' too. "sometimes you sound like...". Never use 'as' in this context unless it's a simile, ie: "sometimes you sound as common as muck", or something like that.

In the late 1950's a cigarette commercial was highly criticized by academes: "Winston tastes good like a cig- cig- cigarette should". The contention was that since "like" was followed by a clause with a verb it should have been "as". Walk like me vs. walk as I do. I'm not sure it's considered very important these days, but then we don't have Bennett Cerf and Dorothy Kilg