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- word choice - Identical Meaning of similar to and like - English . . .
Two different Questions, japhwil Broadly, "similar to" and "like" are interchangeable (and MS should leave your style choices to you) Quite separately, I think you'll have a hard time explaining the difference you suggest between " A is similar to B" indicating objects are quite distinct, and "A is like B" suggesting they are practically the
- Idioms or phrases to answer to obvious (yes) questions?
I've come across this analogous question for the opposite case Idioms Phrase for Obvious No but couldn't find one for mine I'm looking for phrases like quot;Does the Pope pray? quot; or quot;Doe
- in a similar way as or in a similar way to?
For me, rephrasing to "A is constructed in a way similar to B ('s way of construction)" makes it clearer that the second statement is correct
- Another word for ensure but less absolute
The word promote is less absolute than ensure, but it won't fit your sentence What would make your sentence make sense would be to drop the and and insert so that The lesser level of certainty will be carried over from the earlier phrase hope to make I hope to make universal design the standard practice so that no person feels excluded from an activity, commodity, or opportunity due to a
- what is the difference between similarity to and similarity with?
Both are found, but there is no obvious difference in meaning Similarity to is the preferred construction in both American and British English The Corpus of Contemporary American English has 332 records for similarity to and 52 for similarity with The figures for the British National Corpus show a less pronounced preference, but, with corresponding figures of 105 and 34, it is still
- similar to or similarly to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Using the example "to obtain similar to or similarly to," the latter sounds very strange even though similarly is definitely being used as an adverb The sentence: "The fragments were obtained simi
- idioms - Are there any commonly used Couldnt organise an X in a Y . . .
Are there any phrases like "Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery" or "Couldn't organise a root in a brothel" that are reasonably common, indicate organisational incompetence, have a degree of i
- What is the difference between same, typical and similar?
What is the difference between same, typical and similar? All of them seem to convey the same meaning
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