AS or LIKE

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which is corret?Do as he does/Do like he does      (personally I'd go with the AS)thank you

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

As is usually considered better or more formal at least in British English. However, like was used for almost 350 years as a conjunction before some people realised that it was "wrong" as this quotation from Random House Unabridged Dictionary shows:

"—Usage. LIKE1 as a conjunction meaning “as, in the same way as” (Many shoppers study the food ads like brokers study market reports) or “as if ” (It looks like it will rain) has been used for nearly 500 years and by many distinguished literary and intellectual figures. Since the mid-19th century there have been objections, often vehement, to these uses. Nevertheless, such uses are almost universal today in all but the most formal speech and writing. In extremely careful speech and in much formal writing, as, as if, and as though are more commonly used than LIKE: The commanding general accepted full responsibility for the incident, as any professional soldier would. Many of the Greenwich Village bohemians lived as if (or as though) there were no tomorrow."

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