Both answers are ok in conversational English. Purists want you to reserve "like" for its uses as an adjective and adverb (or, for many speakers today, a preposition). One should use the conjunction "as if." In fact, purists

Question: In this sentence: "It's easy to compare school to OR with work." which is preferable - TO / WITH -- and why? Found the sentence in a series of test questions and don't know the answer!

In a book which gives some examples of common collocations in English I came across a phrase "I work behind a bar at the weekends to help pay for my studies". What kind of work is that? Serving customers and pouring drinks? Cleaning

Ant is correct. Gramatically and in general conversational English the use these prepositions are dependant more on the speakers point of view (or imagined point of view) than entrances, roads, etc. However, mostly you have it correct: 1.

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Hi, this is my first post to the group. I’ve just pasted information from Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. To be quite frank, I don’t really understand these definitions fully but I hope the information is useful to you. So, regarding the