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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
preposition-like
Hi,
Last time I checked, if I am not mistaken, the word 'like' is a preposition and it is my understanding that a preposition is followed by a noun or pronoun. Having said that, could you consider the underlined part as one of those--that is a noun?
acts like you do
Last time I checked, if I am not mistaken, the word 'like' is a preposition and it is my understanding that a preposition is followed by a noun or pronoun. Having said that, could you consider the underlined part as one of those--that is a noun?
acts like you do
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The word 'you' is a pronoun.
- The word 'you' is a pronoun.
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Thank you, Yankee for your response.
If 'you' is a pronoun, what is 'do' there? Thank you. To me, the underlined part doesn't look to be a 'stand-alone' pronoun
act like you do
If 'you' is a pronoun, what is 'do' there? Thank you. To me, the underlined part doesn't look to be a 'stand-alone' pronoun
act like you do
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the word 'like' is a prepositionBut not exclusively a preposition.
Look it up at www.m-w.com and you will notice that like is a noun, an adjective, a verb, an adverb, a preposition, and a conjunction.
Your example shows the conjunctive use. See the usage note for like (conjunction) at the website mentioned above.
CJ
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In this case, "like" is being used as a conjunctive to connect two phrase, NOT as a preposition.
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