⚡️ "As" or "like"? #DoubtsForLater My students often bring up questions which I can't answer fully at the moment, so I save them and do research later. Here's my chat with Gemini Google: Me: Is this sentence correct? 🗣 "He's in the same apartment as me." GG: Yes. Me: You can say "as me" or "as I am", right? GG: Yes. While "as me" is more common in informal speech, "as I am" is grammatically correct and considered more formal. Me: Why grammatically correct? Because "as" is usually used with full clauses? GG: That's a good observation. Typically, "as" introduces a clause: 🗣 He's as tall as I am. 🗣 She sings as beautifully as a nightingale. Me: Right, and if you say "as a nightingale" or even "as always", you can still recover a subject and a verb: "as a nightingale (sings)" or "You did this great, as (you) always (do)." GG: Absolutely correct! You've pinpointed the underlying structure of these phrases. And I continued: Me: What about "like"? Unlike "as", the preposition "like" should only be used with nouns, right? GG: That's generally correct. "Like" is typically used to compare nouns or noun phrases: 🗣 He looks like his father. 🗣 She sings like a bird. However, in informal speech, "like" can sometimes be used in a way that approximates a clause. And that's true! Look at this example provided by GG: 🗣 It looks like it's going to rain. And look at these examples taken from songs: 🗣 Now I'm breathing like I'm running. 🗣 Like I'm gonna lose you.