Like or as practice for English learners. This interactive grammar exercise helps students choose between like and as in short sentence contexts. The activity practises comparisons with like, jobs and roles with as, and common expressions such as look like, behave like, swim like a fish and work like a beaver.
Choose the correct option: LIKE or AS.
1. Five years ago he looked LIKE / AS his uncle.
2. She got a job LIKE / AS a teacher at a college.
3. Her voice is LIKE / AS clear water.
4. I am not LIKE / AS him.
5. My friend graduated from university and worked LIKE / AS an engineer for several years.
6. I worked LIKE / AS a beaver the entire summer.
7. I learnt to swim when I was three, and my daughter already swims LIKE / AS a fish at five.
8. This baby looks LIKE / AS a doll.
9. He ran LIKE / AS a scared rabbit after the accident.
10. Your parents behaved LIKE / AS a teenage couple.