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David Bowman's Blog – April 2010 Archive (1)

Confusing Such and Like

I own literary books like The Clock Winder by Anne Tyler and The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie.



Do I own those books or not? This is not clear. The problem is the word like.



Many writers use the word like when they mean such as, and this causes confusion. When we’re editing client’s documents, we help improve clarity, i.e., we help the writer communicate what he or she means. As a result, we fix problems with like and such… Continue

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Added by David Bowman on April 14, 2010 at 9:21pm — No Comments

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