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Usage of like, in this sentence..[OG13]

by rohan.dd.bhatia Tue May 28, 2013 11:07 am

Source: OG13 SC Rules

when the kids went to sleep they slept like logs.

Intuition says the obv. it will not be "as logs do", but if I go by the rules for "like comparisons" -- shouldn’t the left and right parts be nouns, in this case we have a verb(slept) like noun (logs)
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Re: Usage of like, in this sentence..[OG13]

by messi10 Wed May 29, 2013 1:25 pm

What follows like or unlike must be noun or noun + prepositional phrases. What immediately precedes like or unlike does not have to be a noun
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Re: Usage of like, in this sentence..[OG13]

by rohan.dd.bhatia Thu May 30, 2013 4:04 pm

Thanks Messi
Yes thats what the OG says too.
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Re: Usage of like, in this sentence..[OG13]

by jlucero Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:43 am

Thanks, messi. Let us know if there are more questions here.
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