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\n<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b>Do you know<\/span> that?  <\/span>What?  <\/span>Native speakers<\/span> of English like using \u2018<\/span>LIKE<\/span>\u2019. <\/span>And they, especially if your<\/span> friends and coworkers<\/span> are <\/span>young<\/span>, use \u2018LIKE\u2019 a lot.  <\/span><\/b>For example, do you know what <\/span>Janet <\/span>means?  <\/span>And in the ball a guy came to me and I\u2019m <\/span>like<\/span> \u2018Who are you?  Do we know each other?\u2019<\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/b>So <\/span>what<\/span> does the \u2018like\u2019 <\/span>mean<\/span>? <\/span><\/b>There are<\/span> three <\/span><\/b>choices<\/span> for you.<\/span>
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\nThe <\/span>first<\/span> choice is<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/span> <\/span> like<\/span><\/span> is similar to<\/span> <\/span>love<\/span>, f<\/span>or example:<\/span> <\/span>I <\/span>like<\/span> this jacket<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>Well, in <\/span>I\u2019m <\/span>like<\/span> \u2018Who are you?  Do we know each other?\u2019 <\/span>the \u2018like\u2019 has nothing to do with \u2018love\u2019.<\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/span><\/b>The <\/span>second<\/span> choice is: like means ‘<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b>similar t<\/span>o<\/span>‘, for example, <\/span> I was, <\/span>like<\/span>, standing there<\/span> (saying not even a word to the man). <\/span> <\/span>No again.  The above \u2018like\u2019 is a<\/span> <\/span>filler<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>What is a filler?  <\/span><\/b>It is <\/span>when you talk a<\/span>nd you <\/span>don\u2019t want to pause<\/b><\/span> and the word \u2018like\u2019 come to rescue you. <\/span>In other words<\/span>, the \u2018like\u2019 here is just like \u2018<\/span>you know<\/span>\u2019 or \u2018<\/span>right<\/span>\u2019.  <\/span> <\/span>
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\nSo obviously you know <\/span>Choice C<\/span> is the answer, right? <\/span>What is choice C? <\/span>You use \u2018like\u2019 when you want to say something in the<\/span> <\/span><\/span>EXACT WORDS<\/span>. <\/span>What do I mean<\/span> by exact words? R<\/span>ead the following from Janet again (this time she was <\/span>rejected<\/span>).<\/span><\/b>
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\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/a>I asked him if he wanted to go out with me, and he\u2019s,<\/span> like<\/span>, \u2018hit the road\u2019<\/span><\/span>. <\/span>  <\/span> (Hit the road = Go away)<\/span>
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\n<\/b>So <\/span>the<\/span> <\/span>F<\/span>ee<\/span>l G<\/span>oo<\/span>d<\/span> <\/span>tip is: <\/span><\/b>Use ‘<\/span>LIKE<\/span>‘<\/span> <\/span><\/span>before<\/span> the exact<\/span> <\/span><\/span>words.<\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span><\/b>Pic sources:<\/span><\/b>
\nhttp:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shankbone\/6165729406\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/83873722@N02\/8485941294\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/<\/span>
\nhttp:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/waltstoneburner\/5651917245\/sizes\/m\/in\/photostream\/<\/span>
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Do you know that?  What?  Native speakers of English like using \u2018LIKE\u2019. And they, especially if your friends and coworkers are young, use \u2018LIKE\u2019 a lot.  For example, do you know what Janet means?  And in the ball a guy came to me and I\u2019m like \u2018Who are you?  Do we know each other?\u2019 So […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spoken-english"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a-computer-a-woman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpowerasia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}