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Uses of " LIKE "

Date: Sep 26 2007

Author: marksimz

Lesson

'Like' can be used as a verb or as a preposition. There are a number of common questions with 'like' that are easy to confuse.

What's he like? - 'What … like?' is used to ask about a person's or object's character and is general in nature.
What does he like? - This use of the verb 'like' is for general preferences. 'Like' as a verb is generally followed by the 'ing' form of the verb (I like playing tennis).
What does she look like? - 'Like' is used as a preposition to express physical appearance. In this case, 'like' can also mean 'similar to' if you are making a comparison to other people.
What would you like to drink? - Another common use of 'like' is in 'would like' to express wishes. Note that 'would like' is followed by the infinite form of the verb NOT the '-ing' form.

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marksimz

Philippines

hi sanyo!

you need not put "an" anymore before english books. using "an" would signify that a singular noun would follow and because you are using plural noun after the "an" it is but grammatically correct to delete it from the sentence.

your sentence would now look like this.

- i like reading english books.

or if you want to use "an", your sentence would look like this..

- i like reading an english book.

sanyo

Uzbekistan

i like reading an english books

sumansehra

India

I wanted to improve my speaking as well as my writing english. Is their anybody who can tell me the easy of learning. Sometimes when I know the answer in hindi but i could not convey my answer to the other person because I thought that I am using the wrong grammer as well as the word I forgot to use in the sentence