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  • Kerin

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    January 12, 2021 at 10:05 am

    An excellent example of an opinion essay @Wanda

    Watch out for this:

    >As Walker, English means opportunity to me should be Like Walker, English means opportunity to me

    As and like are prepositions or conjunctions and are often confused. The prepositions as and like have different meanings.

    As + noun means ‘in the role of’,

    like + noun means ‘similar to’ or ‘in the same way as’.

    Compare

    As your teacher, I’ll help you as much as I can (means the speaker is the teacher)

    Like your teacher, I’ll help you as much as I can (means the speaker is not your teacher but wants to act in a similar way to the teacher)