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#2 (permalink) Sun May 03, 2009 7:39 am What does alike mean? |
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Hi,
'Alike' stands on its own and 'like' has to be linked with a noun/pronoun as in: They look like one another/ They look alike.
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#3 (permalink) Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:57 am What does alike mean? |
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Hi Alan,
Is this sentence correct
We can't tell them apart. Elena and her mom kook just alike. Thanks Phuongchi |
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Kietsjsu I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:48 am What does alike mean? |
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Apart from the typo in the word 'look', you would not need to use 'just' there. _________________ "Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."
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#5 (permalink) Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:56 am What does alike mean? |
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Hi Kietsjsu,
You wouldn't usually qualify 'alike', used here as an adjective. You could, if you really wanted to stress the similarity, say 'compeletely alike'.
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