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Moon7296 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

~said looked like~

My little girl piped up, "Mommy, is this the lady you said looked like a horse?" I wanted to die.

I don't understand the underlined part..

Is it not like: the lady you said who looked like... ?
  

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Her mother has previously said that this lady resembles a horse. To look like someone or something - to resemble someone or something.

— LouiseT

  • Her mother has previously said that this lady resembles a horse.
  • To look like someone or something - to resemble someone or something.
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Her mother has previously said that this lady resembles a horse.

To look like someone or something - to resemble someone or something.
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Thank you for your super fast reply.

But what I want to know is the structure of the sentence.

I don't understand how a past verb "looked" can come after say...

Thank you^^
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The sentence is in the past tense. :-
..... you said that she looked like a horse.

Mother (at some time in the past) "she looks like a horse"

Here is the lady who looks like a horse.
Here is the lady you say looks like a horse.
Here is the lady you said looked like a horse. (or) you said looks like a horse. Either is correct.
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