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- similar to or similarly to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Similar is an adjective and similarly is an adverb The only grammatical word in this sentence is similarly, as it modifies the verb obtained
- Similar vs Similarly to - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The argument I am faced with is whether we should use the adverb, similarly, by essentially implicitly encapsulating the entire process to arrive at a new equation as the verb; or whether we should use the adjective, similar, to suggest that the equation or citation are similar to our equation, but leave us with the ambiguity illustrated in
- similarly to in the sentence beginning - English Language Usage . . .
2 "Similarly to" (in a similar way to) at the beginning of a sentence is grammatically correct Because many Americans generally don't use adverbs correctly, beginning a sentence with one such as this would certainly sound quite odd People tend to go with words that are frequently used Let's start re-educating people by using English
- comparisons - Behaves similar to or behaves similarly to? - English . . .
The correct word in this usage is similarly In a hypothetical situation where there is a test for similarity, and two object are, when tested, found to be similar, then one could say either object behaves similar to the other
- Must a comma be used after the word similarly? [duplicate]
Similarly, in photography, I also consider I know that there's usually a comma after "similarly" but the sentence in the second sentence sounds too long and has too many pauses
- in a similar way as or in a similar way to?
Here , As and To would mean to different things : If you would use the word AS here , it would mean similie but you actually meant it to be an analogy (comparison) So if you would want to show the similarity b w the two: A is constructed as similarly as B But the more befitting phrase here would be: A is constructed similarly to B Why? because you are comparing both the diagrams , hence an
- Can I use similar to at the beginning of a sentence?
Can I use "similar to" at the beginning of a sentence? For example, Similar to the proof showing x=1, we have y=1 Or I should say "it is similar to the proof showing x=1, we have y=1"
- Treat similarly named patches equally: is this correct English?
1 Treat similarly named patches equally Your first example (as quoted above) is both grammatical and expresses the sense you explained in the question Using a hyphen (ie, similarly-named patches) would explicitly indicate that similarly modifies named, not patches
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