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Re: Vocab help

Mon, 10 March 2008 17:23

Soobie

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I'm trying to work out if you are wanting to use 'like' as a discourse marker or as a simile. I avoid the use of like as a discourse marker. Similes are easy to come up with: Just throw anything in there. "I performed like a *can of sardines*." (insert almost anything inside the * *: pear soup; bottle of used Johnny Walker; whatever)

So, here are some sentences where you could have 'like' in there as a discourse marker. Reinsert it if you want. I prefer not.

My performance was (like):
below par
horrendous
less than ordinary
less than my best
undesirable

My performance could have been (like):
better
superior
worse

I performed (like):
terribly
sub-optimally

I did (like) my best, but it (like) wasn't good enough.

I wish I'd (like) given a stronger showing. But I didn't. So jam it.

Like so many things in life, you can only do what you can do. I did my best and failed. Hopefully I've learnt from this. Next time I will do better.

(In the last sentence I've used like as the adjective. I'd be inclinced to leave it there Smile

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		Vocab help By: knightpraetor on Sun, 09 March 2008 22:38
		Re: Vocab help By: Soobie on Mon, 10 March 2008 02:24
		Re: Vocab help By: knightpraetor on Mon, 10 March 2008 09:57
		Re: Vocab help By: m.a@stars on Mon, 10 March 2008 12:45
		Re: Vocab help By: knightpraetor on Mon, 10 March 2008 13:48
		Re: Vocab help By: Soobie on Mon, 10 March 2008 17:23
		Re: Vocab help By: knightpraetor on Tue, 11 March 2008 04:37
		Re: Vocab help By: Soobie on Tue, 11 March 2008 06:31
		Re: Vocab help By: knightpraetor on Tue, 11 March 2008 15:53
		Re: Vocab help By: Soobie on Tue, 11 March 2008 17:38
		Re: Vocab help By: m.a@stars on Tue, 11 March 2008 20:30
		Re: Vocab help By: knightpraetor on Wed, 12 March 2008 14:09
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