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Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ======As or like====== =====Introduction===== <html><p><a class="various" href="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1772_fe6c1cffa6c51e48cc2a6f83c5b57131.jpg" rel="image_show"><img width="425" height="281" id="1772" style="width: 182px; height: 118px;" alt="cozinheiro chef" src="https://www.e-exercises.com/img/bibliotheque/1772_fe6c1cffa6c51e48cc2a6f83c5b57131.jpg"></a> <b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He works <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> a chef in a big hotel, just <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">like</span> his father.</span></b> <br></p></html> =====Definition===== <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>'As' and 'like' are both prepositions and conjunctions.</span></b></p> <br></html> =====Uses===== <html> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>As</span></u></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastfirstrow: yes;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Use</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 252.6pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Examples</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> Comparisons</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>January is<span> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>cold<span> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as<span> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>February.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>The ocean in Florida is</span></strong><span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></strong><span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>warm</span></strong><span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></strong><span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></span><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>a swimming pool.</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>[See <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">Comparative adjectives</span>]</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Presented as something/ someone else</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> All the children at the party were dressed </span></b><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> cowboys.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The spy camera was disguised </span></b><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a book.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To talk about a job or a function </span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He works </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> an ecologist in the Tundra. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>I had to use a knife </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a screwdriver because I had no tools with me.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>In the role of...</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>As</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> your friend, I advise you not to take that job.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Dr Mugwort was speaking </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> an expert on the subject. </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>I<b>n the same way or manne</b>r<b> </b></span></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>John was late for the meeting, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> usual.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The letter 'K' before 'N', </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> in 'knife, isn't pronounced.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> To state a reason </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>As </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>I didn't attend the meeting, I asked Susan to give me the minutes.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Mr Masomoto will need a translator </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> he doesn't speak English.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To mean 'while'</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He was painting the walls </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> I was sanding the door. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He became more confident </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> he learned more about the job. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7; ;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To mean 'although'</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Try </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>she might, she couldn't</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>convince him to change his working practice. [although she tried hard]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Confident </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> he was, he didn't manage to secure the contract. </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>[although he was confident]</span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></b></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Like</span></u></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastfirstrow: yes;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Use</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 252.6pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Examples</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Physical similarity</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>She looks </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> her mother.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>This cocktail tastes </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> tropical fruit.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> In a certain way</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Jonathon swims </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a fish. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Why are you looking at me </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> that?</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To say something is normal or usual</span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>It's just </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> John to be late for the presentation. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>That was so </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> her, telling everyone about it before the contract was signed</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To mean 'for example'</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></i></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm -5.4pt 10pt 0cm; line-height: normal;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>I prefer more classical music </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> Beethoven or Tchaikovsky.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Arabian customers prefer natural fibres </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> silk or wool.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4; ;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Similar to</span></b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>, or in a similar way</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> your friend Susan, I also think that you shouldn't take that job.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He found getting a job in the city was very difficult, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> many young people.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><u><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Both 'as' and 'like'</span></u></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastfirstrow: yes;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong>Use</strong></span></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 252.6pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1; tab-stops: 38.6pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Examples</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; ;"> <td width="330" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 198.2pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To mean 'in the manner' </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="421" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 252.6pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Like/as</span></b><b><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> I said, you can always phone me if you need some advice.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The meeting with the Swedish didn't go </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like/as</span></b><b><span style='color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; ; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> he'd planned.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;'> </span></b></p> <br></html> =====Some verbs typically followed by 'as' or 'like'===== <html> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastfirstrow: yes;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Verbs followed by 'like'</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 309.3pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Feel</span></b></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 309.3pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Your team </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>feel <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">like</span></span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> you don't appreciate them if you don't give them praise when it's due.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Look</span></b></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 309.3pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>If </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>looks<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> like</span></span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> it's going to rain again. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Seem</span></b></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 309.3pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>You don't </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>seem<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> like</span></span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> yourself today, are you feeling OK? </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Sound</span></b></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 309.3pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>I hear Joe and Peter talking in the hall it </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>sounded<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> like</span></span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> an argument. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Smell</span></b></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 309.3pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The house </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>smelt<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> like</span></span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> someone had been baking bread. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5; ;"> <td width="236" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: none none solid solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 141.5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Taste</span></b></p> </td> <td width="516" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: none solid solid none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 309.3pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Amy's shortbread </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>tasted<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> like</span></span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> strawberries. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><p><strong> <br></strong> </p><table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-border-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastfirstrow: yes;"> <td width="376" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 225.4pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Verbs followed by object + 'as'</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 517;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span></p> </td> <td width="376" valign="top" style="background: rgb(91, 155, 213); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 225.4pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;'> </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Accept</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The department found it difficult to accept Mark </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> their new manager.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Characterise</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>John characterised the move to a bigger building </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> the company's turning point. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Class</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>I'd class this wine </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a Grand Cru. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Count</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Bank holidays aren't counted </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> annual leave. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Define</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Our intranet can be defined </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a private network which uses the world wide web. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Describe</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The journalist described the scene </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> one of the worst of the current conflict.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Express</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Can you express 33 </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a percentage of 150?</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Interpret</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>James interpreted his colleagues silence </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> shyness.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Know</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Paris is known </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as </span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>the most romantic city in the world.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Look on</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Today we look on a refrigerator </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> essential in our homes. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Use</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Don't use a knife </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> a screwdriver.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Regard</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>To be regarded </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>a</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>s</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> serious applicant your CV must be perfect.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Refer</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>The author referred to several academics </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> the source of his information. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Recognise</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He was recognised </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> one of the greatest artists of the period.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>See</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Learning a new language is seen by many </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> vital in this period of globalisation. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 4;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Treat</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 0px 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: none solid none none; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Lydia treated her new husband's children </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> her own.</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16; ;"> <td width="224" valign="top" style="background: white; border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 134.45pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Think of</span></b></p> </td> <td width="527" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(91, 155, 213) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 316.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #5B9BD5 .5pt;" colspan="2"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>In western countries we think of clean water </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as </span></b><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>a basic human right. </span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table><p> <br></p></html> =====Using 'like' as a conjunction===== <html> <p style="background: white; margin: 9pt 0cm; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Some people and older grammar books state that it is incorrect to use 'like' as a conjunction but it has been common in everyday, informal situations for a long time. Both of these are correct:</span></b></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Our new Sodasport is light, and refreshes <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">like</span> a sports drink should. </span></b></p> <p style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Our new Sodasport is light, and refreshes <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as</span> a sports drink should. </span></b></p><p> <br></p></html> ====='As if" and 'as though'===== <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>These are conjunctions which we use to make comparisons. They have the same meaning and are used </span></b><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;'>to talk about situations that are imaginary, possible or likely. They are often used with verbs like 'look', 'feel', 'sound', 'seem' etc.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(41, 41, 41); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>The meeting was so boring - it felt <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as if</span><span style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41);"> </span>it would never end.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>It looks <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">as though</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> </span>we'll have to work late again tonight.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>It sounds <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as if </span>it's raining out there.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>I don't know why she isn't speaking to me; it's not <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as though </span>I've done anything wrong.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='color: rgb(41, 41, 41); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>In the examples above, we can also use 'like', although this is considered conversational and is best avoided in formal contexts. </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>We can also use these before an infinitive or a prepositional phrase. In these kinds of sentences, we can't use 'like':</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>He looked at me across the table <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as if </span><u>to say</u>, 'Please don't disagree with the client!'</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;'>I was embarrassed by them. They were behavin<span style="color: rgb(41, 41, 41);">g </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">as though </span><u>at school</u>.</span></b></p><p> <br></p></html> =====Choosing between 'as' and 'like'===== <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Meaning </span></u></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>In the tables above you can see that sometimes the choice of word changes the meaning. </span></b></p> <table style="border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh: none; mso-border-insidev: none;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes;"> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He works </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> an ecologist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> </td> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>[This is his job.]</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He works </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> an ecologist does.</span></b></p> </td> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>[His job is similar to that of an ecologist.]</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>As</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> your mother, I promise I'll always be here for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> </td> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>[The speaker is the listener's mother.]</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3; ;"> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> your mother, I promise I'll always be here for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> </td> <td width="376" valign="top" style="padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 225.4pt; background-color: transparent;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>[The speaker is making the same promise as the listener's mother did.]</span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><br></span></u></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Formality </span></u></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>If both words have the same meaning, then consider the formality. 'As' is sometimes more formal than 'like'. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>It was </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>as though</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> she wanted to lose the debate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>It was </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='background: white; color: rgb(0, 0, 204); line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>like</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> she wanted to lose the debate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[informal, conversational]</span></b></p><p> <br></p></html> =====Idioms and expressions with 'as' and 'like'===== <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>This isn't my ideal job but I <u>might/may as well</u> stay here till I find something better. [easiest or most logical action]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>She loves her new dog; it's her baby, <u>as it were</u>. [the speaker gives their impression]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>My office needs to be totally redecorated and <u>as for</u> the air conditioning, I need to call in a technician. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[to introduce someone or something into a conversation]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>He works <u>like a dog</u> to earn enough money for his studies. [works really hard]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>What is she like</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>? She's put her socks in the fridge again! [Informal, conversational in</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>British English when someone does something annoying, silly etc.]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>John said the car was worth $20,000; <u>more like</u> $2,000 with all the bumps he's had. [giving</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>more accurate information]</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 18pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 107%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>There's <u>nothing like</u> a Sodasport after a good workout. [to praise something] </span></b></p> <br></html> [[en:grammar:home|{{ :file_-_back_3_.png?150 }}]]