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Paul_h Posted 18 years ago
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"similar to" or "similarly to"?

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00Do you use the second one at all? (And also, do you use "at all" in non negated sentences?)02br
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00This one is obvious: A is simliar to B. 02br
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00Similar(ly) to the previously examined example, B has to be changed to comply with the specification.02br
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0I have never heard of similarly being used. It is a word and I think it COULD be used in that way but there are better ways.0-
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I have used "similarly to" as you have above, and was searching the net to see if I was justified. I see you had the same question. My logic is that we are now using similar an adverb instead of an adjective; it describes "how". So adding 'ly' makes sense.
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There is no problem using the adverb "similarly". Good sources for samples of usage are the British National Corpus and the American Corpus. Here are a few examples of what you'll find in those:

- It works very similarly
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Hi,
I believe you can use the second one as follows:

Similarly, in the previously examined example, B has to be changed to comply with the specification.

Mike
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Hi Paul,

There is huge difference between the two. The first one is an adverb and the second is an adjective, hence the first one describes objects while the second one describes action.

For example Jon and John are similar but as one is Irish and the other Australian they do not speak similarly at all. you could say that in fact their accents are not similar at all.
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Hi,

I think you use 'similar to' but 'similarly' without 'to'.

Here is what OALD says:

SIMILARLY (adverb)

1 in almost the same way

Husband and wife were similarly successful in their chosen careers.

2 used to say that two facts, actions, statements, etc. are like each other [Your case, I guess]

The United
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AnonymousI am slow eater and runer
I think that this statement would be more effective and credible if the "runner" was correctly spelled. Now I am not sure if anonymous is a veritable source or not. Hmmm.
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The reply by Yankee is by far the best! Thanks - this helped!
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In this case, similarly is acting more like an adverb that modifies the verb in the sentence, and not very much as a transitional phrase.
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