Like it’s a beautiful day
While smartphones can obviously open up whole new vistas of knowledge, they can also drag us away from the present moment, like it’s a beautiful day, unexperienced because you’re head down, WhatsApping a meal or a conversation.
I think that like it’s a beautiful day is a prepositional phrase in the sentence above.
Am I correct?
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anonymous I think that like it’s a beautiful day is a prepositional phrase in the sentence above. " It is written in an informal conversational style. People talk like that, and we all understand it.
- anonymous I think that like it’s a beautiful day is a prepositional phrase in the sentence above.
- " It is written in an informal conversational style.
- People talk like that, and we all understand it.
- I find this a good example of ungrammatical but natural and therefore correct.
- And I hesitate to classify "like", but I'll call it a conjunction, not that it makes any difference what you call it.
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anonymousI think that like it’s a beautiful day is a prepositional phrase in the sentence above.
The sentence is technically ungrammatical, using a clause with "like" that way, roughly equivalent to "While smartphones can obviously open up whole new vistas of knowledge, they can also drag us away from the present moment, for example, if it’s a beauti
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