LOOK LIKE...

Good morning and welcome back to the Daily Vitamin.

Today's verb phrase is: to look like

We use it: to ask for a description or an opinion of the physical characteristics of someone or something.

Notice that the words look like are used in the question but not usually in the answer. We use the verb be in the answer to give the description. The word like is NOT a verb. It is a preposition.

Example 1
A: What does your sister look like?
B: She is tall. She's got long, brown hair and blue eyes.

Example 2
A: I bought a new pair of shoes.
B: Oh, yes? What do they look like?
A: They are red, high-heeled, designer sandals. I'm going to wear them to the party on Saturday night.

Next week we'll look at adjective order. You can begin by reviewing the order of the adjectives in the examples above. What kind of adjectives have we used first? Second?

To get some writing practice, I encourage you to write your own sentence with the phrase look like and post it on one of our social media sites (Facebook or Bluesky); we will give you feedback about your sentence as soon as we can. 

We'll be back tomorrow with the last lesson of the week. 

All the best!