Initiatives like Every Child a Reader is designed to provide these important interventions.
Yeah, I know: it’s a cheap shot. Let me make it a tad less cheap by saying that there are two grammatical errors in that sentence. What’s the other one?
(And yeah, I also know that smugness is never attractive. Good job I’m a looker, too.)
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Nobody cares, right? It’s the ‘like’. ‘Like’ is properly used to indicate similarity; ‘such as’ is appropriate when giving an example.
Bet you’re glad you gave up ten seconds of your life to read this, eh?
Very :)
Still, it is common to replace 'such as' with 'like' in spoken English. Whether this is correct or not it doesn't really matter - the people appear to have decided otherwise.
Although I agree that since the quote comes from a written article 'such as' would have been - at least stylistically more appropriate.
Sorry for sounding so incredibly snotty...
Don't worry - snottiness doesn't get up my nose!
(Sorry. That was awful.)
You're completely right, though. I talk a lot less grammatically than I write. And, frankly, I often blog less grammatically than I write for work, say.
'Such as' does sounds a bit formal. And there are so few contexts in which confusion of meaning is at all likely. It's almost as if it doesn't really matter...
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