2BTO. REPHRASING UNIT 2

As and Like 

A) We need to use as with expressions like as much as and by as adjective as. This is also talking about similarity. These expressions can be followed by a subject and a verb or a noun or preposition.

• John loves spicy food as much as I do.
• Lucy travels as much as me.
• She's as clever as her sister is.
• London's not as big as Mexico City.

  As can be used with a noun to show someone's position. This is especially common with jobs.    In a similar way, as can also be used to show something's function (what we are using it for).    It must be followed by a noun.

• She works as a teacher.
• Don't use the knife as a screwdriver.

   B) We can also use like to talk about how one thing is similar to another thing. Here like is          a preposition and is followed by a noun or a pronoun.

• John loves spicy food, like me.
• Tokyo is a busy and exciting city, like London.

   When we're talking about how things are similar, we often use like with verbs such as look,       sound and smell.

• She looks like her mother.
• It looks like rain.
• That sounds like a car.
• The kitchen smells like lemons.

                                         like vs as for similarity

      Often, we can use both as and like to talk about similarity.

• I love coffee, like Julie / I love coffee, like Julie does.
• I love coffee, as Julie does.

        We need to follow as with a clause (a subject and a verb)

   However, when we use as to mean a role or job (it's followed by a noun in this case), then we     can't use like. Instead, like is talking about similarity.

• As your mother, I'm telling you not to go out now. (I am your mother and I am telling you this in my role as your mother.)
• Like your mother, I'm telling you not to go out now. (I'm not your mother, but I am telling you the same thing as she is. I am acting in a similar way to your mother.)

      Here's another example.

• She works as the manager (= she is the manager).
• She works like the manager (= she isn't the manager, but she works in a similar way to the manager).

EXERCISES:

1) She works 

a teacher (it's her job).

2) I'm very 

my mother..

3) He works in a bank, 

his father.

 4) I used a tea towel 

an oven glove and I burned it!.

5) Your perfume smells 

flowers.

6) He works 

a hairdresser (it's his job).

7) That woman looks 

my grandmother.

8) Please do it 

me.

9) 

the other students, Paul failed the exam.

10) She often plays sports, 

tennis or football.