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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Sentence structure

Can anyone help me out? I saw this while playing a game and it caused me some confusion.

Talking to you freezes my very spine. It's not unlike how I felt under the presence of grima.

Shouldn't that be not like?

Or is that also acceptable?

How do they differ?

  

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Shouldn't that be not like? Or is that also acceptable? Both are OK How do they differ?

  • Shouldn't that be not like?
  • Or is that also acceptable?
  • Both are OK How do they differ?
  • Consider this simpler example.
  • Tom is like Bob.
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Shouldn't that be not like?

Or is that also acceptable? Both are OK

How do they differ?

Consider this simpler example.

Tom is like Bob. This means Tom resembles Bob in some way.

Tom is not unlike Bob. This also means Tom resembles Bob in some way. However, this English is more literary, more 'educated'. To my mind, these words also tend

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