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Improve Your Writing Table of Contents

Like or As?

A. Why improve your understanding of grammar and punctuation?

In the following exercise, you will be presented with a number of sentences. You will need to choose whether to use 'like' or 'as'.

B. Punctuation Marks C. Common Confusions

1

The situation is quite serious; just _______ we heard yesterday.

D. Using quoted material.

a)

like

E. Other pitfalls and problems

b)

as

F. Style G. Exercises 1. Using the Colon to Improve Style 2. Using the colon. 3. Using the semicolon.

2

From this angle, the building looks _______ the Empire State Building.

4. Using the comma 1.

a)

like

b)

as

5. Using the comma 2. 6. The comma splice. 7. Separating Clauses 8. Exercise about conjunctions.

3

It looks _______ it is going to rain this afternoon.

9. Exercise using the hyphen.

a)

like

b)

as if

10. Contracted words 11. Using the apostrophe 1. 12. Using the apostrophe 2. 13. Lists. 14. Punctuation marks exercise.

4

The queen looks _______ she is going to escape from the palace with the keys to the castle.

15. Dangling participles exercise.

a)

like

b)

as if

16. Who's or Whose? 17. It's or Its? 18. There or Their or They're? 19. To or Too or Two?

5

Monkeys live on a variety of fruit _______ bananas, oranges and breadfruit.

20. Who or Whom?

a)

like

b)

such as

21. I or me? 22. Less or Fewer? 23. Like or As? 24. Split Infinitives. 25. Verb/Subject Agreement. 26. Using the subjunctive.

6

It looks _______ the weather is going to be kind to us after all.

27. Using Numbers. 28. Punctuation of embedded quotations 1.

a)

like

b)

as if

29. Punctuation of embedded quotations. 2 30. Correcting quotes. 31. Confusable words 1.

7

Your room looks _______ a large nuclear device has hit it.

32. Confusable Words 2.

a)

like

b)

as if

33. Confusable words 3. 34. Consistency of tense. 35. Common Mistakes. 36. Run-on Sentences Exercise.

8

The pasta stew looked and tasted _______ porridge. a)

like

b)

as

37. Pleonasm Exercise. 38. Straying Off The Point Exercise.

9

I would love to visit some exotic countries _______ India, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

10

11

12

a)

like

b)

such as

It seems _______ you never want to come and visit us. a)

like

b)

as if

_______ we heard, the hurricane is coming! a)

Like

b)

As

We could go down to the beach, just _______ we used to. a)

as

b)

like

Find out more about when to use like and as. See a list of other grammar exercises.

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