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Do you know that?  What?  Native speakers of English like using ‘LIKE’. And they, especially if your friends and coworkers are young, use ‘LIKE’ a lot.  For example, do you know what Janet means?  And in the ball a guy came to me and I’m like ‘Who are you?  Do we know each other?’










So what does the ‘like’ mean? There are three choices for you.



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The first choice is:  like is similar to love, for example: I like this jacket. Well, in I’m like ‘Who are you?  Do we know each other?’ the ‘like’ has nothing to do with ‘love’.


The second choice is: like means 'similar to', for example,  I was, like, standing there (saying not even a word to the man). No again.  The above ‘like’ is a filler. What is a filler?  It is when you talk and you don’t want to pause and the word ‘like’ come to rescue you. In other words, the ‘like’ here is just like ‘you know’ or ‘right’.   


















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So obviously you know Choice C is the answer, right? What is choice C? You use ‘like’ when you want to say something in the EXACT WORDS. What do I mean by exact words? Read the following from Janet again (this time she was rejected).



I asked him if he wanted to go out with me, and he’s, like, ‘hit the road’.    (Hit the road = Go away)



So the Feel Good tip is: Use 'LIKE' before the exact words.




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