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• As an engineer, like a monkey

• As we do, like us

• As refers to a person’s role in life or profession, or a part he / she  takes in a play, film etc.
• Like is used for comparison.

Examples:

He works as an engineer. (That’s his job)

He was brilliant as Othello. (In the part of Othello)

He can climb like a monkey. (Comparison: he's not a monkey)

• In comparisons, as is flowed by a clause (that is a subject of the verb)

                                    like is followed by a noun or a pronoun.

Examples:

He works hard, as I do / his father does.

He works hard like me / his father.

As I was saying before you came in, we need someone like you to help us.

A)    Complete the following sentences with as or like:

• • The new law, _______ I said, is ________ the one in France _______ the French, we must have a law of this kind - __________ every civilised country has, in fact.
  • ________, you've already heard, we have opened several new branches, ______ our rivals, and we’ve noticed an increase of business, _________ they have done. _________ them, however, we may lose money at first in same of them.
  • I’m in favour in negotiation, _________ you. But I’m not prepared to give way to pressure, _______ you are. We can't afford to give the workers the idea that we will do anything to keep the peace, _________ Chamberlain at Munich, or __________ the previous manager did when he gave away the last time.

• As an engineer, like a monkey

• A number of verbs are commonly followed by as. If we use like after any of them we are making a comparison.

Example:

He treats his students as friends. (He is friendly towards them.)

He treats his students like animals. (he treats them as they were.)

• Common verbs of this type include: accept, behave, characterise, class, count, describe, define, express, interpret, know, look on, recognise, regard, see, think of, treat, use.

C) Complete the following sentences with a pronoun (him, it, etc) and as or like.

• He is regarded ________ the greatest actor of his generation.
• You have no right to treat people ________ slaves.
• They look on ________ their king, but the government have never, officially recognised ________ such, and I have never thought of a satisfactory ruler.
• The country describes itself _______ democratic, and the newspapers here class _______ socialist, but I don't see how you can define a country_______ if no one has the freedom to express himself _______ an individual.
• I expect you to behave ________ an adult, not ________ a spoilt child.

B) Complete these sentences with as or like:

• She could run __________ a deer.

      You can't expect to make a living _______ an athlete.

• He hopes to have a carer _______ a film director.

He's very fussy about photography. He behaves ________ a film director when he takes a picture of the family on the beach.

• • In my long carrier  ______ an actor , I've always wanted to appear ________ Hamlet, but I've never wanted to be _____ in real life.
  • I had him ______ my teacher at school for many years, but he was so kind that he was more _______ a father to me.

• Known as, treated as, etc