Timeline for Does using "Like something" in a sentence sound formal in British English?
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 11:47 | vote | accept | BM of Spadana | ||
| Oct 13, 2020 at 17:01 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 16:28 | history | edited | BM of Spadana | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 14:28 | answer | added | StephenS | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 9:17 | answer | added | Maciej Stachowski | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 9:07 | comment | added | BillJ | It's okay. The use of "like" that is frowned on (especially by prescriptivists) is that found in examples such as Like so many great successes, the ideas are surprisingly simple / Like Moscow, the main streets in Leningrad are wide and tree-lined. Such constructions are probably best avoided in careful writing. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 8:11 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Sounds like is a perfectly normal phrase meaning gives the impression of being. There is nothing informal about it. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 8:02 | history | edited | BM of Spadana | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2020 at 7:57 | history | asked | BM of Spadana | CC BY-SA 4.0 |