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	Like - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Like is often used in place of the subordinating conjunction as or as if.
		Like can be used as an adverb meaning "nearly" or to indicate that the phrase in which it appears is to be taken metaphorically.
		Like is sometimes used as a verbum dicendi to introduce a quotation or paraphrase, especially if the quote is being recited from short-term memory and therefore might not be exact.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Like (961 words)

	§ 33. like. 1. Grammar. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		As these familiar examples show, like is often used as a conjunction meaning “as” or “as if.” In fact, writers since Chaucer’s time have used like as a conjunction.
		For example, the sentence The teachers treat her like she has real talent is not exactly equivalent to The teachers treat her as if she had real talent.
		Like is acceptable as a conjunction when used in informal contexts, especially with verbs such as feel, look, seem, sound, and taste: It looks like we are in for a rough winter.
	www.bartleby.com /64/C001/033.html (319 words)

	Adposition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The preposition and its object make up a prepositional phrase, which can be used to modify noun phrases and verb phrases in the same way as adjectives and adverbs, respectively.
		For a second example, in the sentence "The girl sat on the chair", the preposition is on and its object is the definite noun the chair.
		In inflected languages, prepositions need not be separate words; their function can instead be performed by a system of inflections on nouns called case or declension.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preposition (1018 words)

	Like - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The word like is a word in English that can be a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection, and quotative.
		Like is sometimes used as a verbum dicendi to introduce a quotation or paraphrase.Examples:
		Like, Word history, As a preposition used in comparisons, As a conjunction, As a verb, As an adjective, As a noun, Valley speak and beatniks, As an adverb, As a quotative, As a hedge, As a discourse particle or interjection, External links, Bibliography and English grammar.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Like (1003 words)

	AUE: FAQ excerpt: "like" vs "as"
		A is like B. A behaves like B. A behaves as B does.
		In informal English, "like" is often used in place of "as" in sentences of type 3 and 4.
		"Like" has been been used in the sense of "as if" since the 14th century, and in the sense of "as" since the 15th century, but such use was fairly rare until the 19th century, and "a writer who uses the construction in formal style risks being accused of illiteracy or worse" (AHD3).
	alt-usage-english.org /excerpts/fxlikevs.html (340 words)

	Spanish Prepositions
		Prepositions are a vital part of a language and it's hard to build a sentence without them.
		Like the preposition "en" which means not only (in, on) but also (at, about, by, on top of, upon, inside of...) let’s first understand what a preposition is.
		A preposition is a type of little word that is placed in front of an object usually a noun in order to indicate a relationship between that noun and the verb, adjective, or noun that follows and used to form a clause; the clause in turn functions as an adjective or adverb.
	spanish.speak7.com /spanish_prepositions (1097 words)

	Release 2.0 \| Prepositions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to something else.
		Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called prepositional phrases.
		Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition).
	www.msu.edu /~sxf1999/cep817/rel2/repository/prepositions.htm (476 words)

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		Although using like as a conjunction seems to be popular among the general population when they speak or write informally, grammar and usage authorities warn that using like as a conjunction should not appear in formal writing.
		Like and as are not interchangeable as conjunctions.
		Although the preposition like is often used as a conjunction in informal speech and in advertising (Dirt-Away works like a soap should), writing generally requires the conjunction as, as if, as though, or that.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /english/classes/GU4322/items/like.html (659 words)

	Prepositions: Locators in Time and Place
		It is possible for a preposition phrase to act as a noun — "During a church service is not a good time to discuss picnic plans" or "In the South Pacific is where I long to be" — but this is seldom appropriate in formal or academic writing.
		To address all the potential difficulties with prepositions in idiomatic usage would require volumes, and the only way English language learners can begin to master the intricacies of preposition usage is through practice and paying close attention to speech and the written word.
		Prepositions at the Crossword II Prepositions at the Crossword III
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/prepositions.htm (1293 words)

	Preposition Proposition
		A preposition is usually combined with a noun, verb, or adjective to express a modification or specification for the rest of the sentence.
		Prepositional phrases are often offset by commas, and in American English, a prepositional phrase at the beginning of the sentence requires a comma afterward (British English finds this comma optional).
		Like other editorial decisions, placement of prepositions depends on the rhetorical situation and requires judgement." The last point being the guiding principle (or the non-guiding non-principle, I suppose).
	blogs.officezealot.com /spiller/archive/2004/04/28/512.aspx (1221 words)

	Polish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nouns, adjectives and verbs are inflected, and both noun declension and verb conjugation follow a rather complex pattern with a large amount of irregularities.
		In particular, "ja" (I) and "ty" (you, singular), and also their plural equivalents "my" (we) and "wy" (you, plural), are almost always dropped, much like the respective Spanish pronouns.
		Some words like bachór (an unruly boy or child) and ciuchy (slang for clothing) were borrowed from Yiddish, spoken by the large Polish Jewish population before their numbers were severely depleted during the Holocaust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish_language (2772 words)

	like definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		In writing and formal contexts, it is best to avoid using like as a conjunction meaning "as" or "as if" or "as though" when introducing a fully developed clause (i.e., one with a subject and a verb).
		It is acceptable to use like in a comparison as long as you do not include a verb in the matter following like: She ran the company just like a tyrant.
		Another use of like, to introduce speech, is often heard in highly informal conversation but is considered nonstandard on any level except in fictional dialogue: She was like, "Don't worry, I'll do it."
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_/like.html (634 words)

	Like Napster
		1) " Like" -- As to Like Napster
		As preposition or adjective, it comes from the Middle English like meaning " similar ", which in turn comes from Anglo-Saxon gelīc and Old Norse líkr.The verb "to like" came from Anglo-Saxon līcian.
		Like is one of the words in the English language that canintroduce a simile.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/10386-like-napster.html (705 words)

	PREPOSITIONS
		A prepositional phrase is a group of words containing a preposition, a noun or pronoun object of the preposition, and any modifiers of the object.
		It is useful to locate prepositional phrases in sentences since any noun or pronoun within the prepositional phrase must be the preposition’s object and, therefore, cannot be misidentified as a verb’s direct object.
		A word that looks like a preposition but is actually part of a verb is called a particle.
	wwwnew.towson.edu /ows/prepositions.htm (223 words)

	like grammar
		The word like is extremely flexible: it can be used as a verb, to say what we enjoy or prefer; and as an adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, noun or suffix.
		Like is also used in some common expressions, and can be used informally as a filler.
		Like is used in very informal speech as a filler, in the same way as 'as it were' is used slightly more formally:
	www.learnenglish.org.uk /grammar/archive/like01.html (494 words)

	like - Wiktionary
		The sense meaning "to say" is deliberately informal and commonly used by young people, and often combined with the use of the present tense as a narrative.
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		(also the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/like (419 words)

	User talk:Sethmahoney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It's statements like this in their unadorned senselessness that seriously irk me. It even more importantly leads to the suggestion that all this is is a POV project of Petrejo's, and his poor suggestions for the improvement of the article are still far from satisfactory (as we both already know).
		This sounds exactly like Petrejo's misunderstanding of a conversation I (tried to have) had with him.
		So you see, his obnoxiousness is more of a problem than it would at first appear, and by that token it appears some have still to rebound from discussing at the talk page in the past.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Sethmahoney (4653 words)

	Korean parts of speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Particles come after nouns and sometimes function like preposition s in English (hence the name " postposition "), often being used to indicate the case of nouns.
		Particles are also often used to indicate the role (subject, object, complement, or topic) of a noun in a sentence or clause.
		A special particle is ida (이다), a " predicative particle" (seosulgyeok josa; 서술격 조사) that behaves much like the English copula "be" (in joining subjects to their complement s) and is therefore often incorrectly called a "verb" in English sources.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Korean_parts_of_speech.html (489 words)

	Do You Speak American . Track That Word! \| PBS
		Like is an old friend, going as far back as the English language itself.
		Originally a verb (“I like this”), long ago it also became an adjective (“under like circumstances”), a noun (“the like of it”), a preposition (“like a winner”), and a conjunction (“like a winner is” — a usage still deplored by purists, despite its age).
		That was, like, a way cool way of saying “I’m thinking.” And since thoughts often turn into spken words, it was also a way of saying “I said,” or “she said,” or “he said,” with feeling.
	www.pbs.org /speak/words/trackthatword/ttw/?i=1022+class= (260 words)

	Библиотека Luksian key \| Tolkien digest vol. #06.
		Although this is done by means of a preposition with the sense of one case followed by an oblique noun, it forms an interesting precedent, which could be extended to a noun agglutinatively declined in both cases.
		If we accept the analysis as being nda-on[see note below], the a plural formation might entail something like nda-i-i-on: the first i to pluralize the -nda case, the second to pluralize when to the -on case would now be the stem.
		Esperanto does something like this in the opposite direction: all nouns are in -o, but all adjectives are in -a, which seem to be derived from the Romance masculine and feminine terminations respectively.
	lib.luksian.com /textsfnf/echo_e/012 (9230 words)

	Grammar of English -- Chapter 7
		For instance, in (1), the lexical verbs are noticed and like and hence, there are two clauses: the main clause (I should have noticed that Zelda does not like Zoltan) and the embedded one (Zelda does not like Zoltan).
		The reason for Extraposition is that speakers do not like to have embedded sentences in the beginning or middle of the main clause.
		Except as complementizer and preposition, like is often used to mark direct speech, as in (45), focus, as in (46), or to soften a request or demand, as in (47).
	www.public.asu.edu /~gelderen/314text/chap7.htm (1906 words)

	It's Usually Not Wrong to End a Sentence with a Preposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Often what looks like a preposition in an English sentence is really not a preposition but a part of the verb (the technical term is
		Obviously these are not the same verbs, and equally obviously the words that look like familiar prepositions are actually a part of each of the latter two verbs.
		Everyone is so afraid of being corrected, which is to say being embarrassed, that we find absurdities caused by this preposition "rule" not only in writing but in speech--especially in the speech of news reporters and media pundits.
	www.grammartips.homestead.com /prepositions1.html (466 words)

	used cars With - used-cars-report.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In English, some prepositions are short, typically containing five letters or fewer.
		Throughout the history of the English language, new prepositions have come into use, old ones fallen out of use, and the meaning of existing prepositions changed.
		Nonetheless, the prepositions are by and large a closed class.
	used-cars-report.com /With.html (375 words)

	Language Log: Someone like me, someone such as myself
		The figures for like are just the reverse, with me dominating myself by a factor of between 5 and 10.
		The careful reader will have noted that I'm suggesting that myself as the object of a preposition is perceived, by many speakers, as more upscale than me despite proscriptions, while such as is perceived, by many speakers, as more upscale than like in part because of proscriptions.
		On the other hand, like has no elegance points on its own, and it's been contaminated by instruction designed to steer speakers away from things like "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." So people shift away from the preposition like, towards such as, when they're taking care with their language.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002458.html (597 words)

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		English has many phrasal, or two-word verbs, consisting of a verb plus a function word that may function as a preposition or not; if it does not function as a preposition, we call it a verb particle.
		Note that even if it looks exactly like a word you have always called a preposition, such as 'up', it is now called a particle if it functions as such.
		To make things simpler (or more complicated!), many sources refer to this type of phrasal verb as a prepositional verb, indicating that the second part is acting like a preposition syntactically, even though it is acting like a particle semantically.
	www.hamline.edu /~aschramm/Slec8a.html (525 words)

	Prepositions
		Is by an adverb or a preposition in "laid by"?
		A preposition is always part of a phrase, which itself can be used as a single part of...
		All of the prepositions that we have been seeing in phrasal verbs are functioning as adverbs, Hanuman.
	www.englishforums.com /search/Prepositions.htm (440 words)

	WinDi manual : chap. 7
		A 'complement' is a group of words, like [preposition + article + adjective + noun], or like an [adverb] (tomorrow, also, etc.).
		NB: Concerning the 'plural' function, please note that the 'uncountable' words like 'flour', 'sugar', or words such as qualities (politeness...) or notions (nature, love, hate...) are not available in the plural, for grammatical and usage reasons.
		Indeed, these prepositions are followed by a complement in the dative form if there is no implied 'movement' (Ich bin im Haus), but by a complement in the accusative form if there is an implied movement (Ich gehe ins Haus).
	www.windi7.com /man/chap7.htm (4117 words)

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