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💢 Common error 


in English
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♦️Do like I say.❌


     Do as I say. ✅

♦️You look like you are angry. ❌


     You look as if you are angry.
      (or "as though") ✅

♦️
❌ You look the way your mother.

     You look the way you mother   


                  
     does. ✅
💥 Rule - Instead of "like", use
"as", "as if", "as though", or "the
way" when following a
comparison with a subject and
verb.

♦️ I,as most students, try to get


good   
     marks ❌

     I,like most students, try to get 


     good marks ✅
                  OR
     I, as most students do, try to
get
     good marks ✅
💥
💥 Rule- "like" means- "similar
to"  "as" means- "in the same
manner that." 
Do not use "as" unless there is a
Verb involved in the sentence.

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