As and Like

As and Like

1. Like

   • Preposition (Comparison)
     • Your house is like our house (is similar to ours)

2. As

   • Preposition (Job or function)
     • As a chef, I have to cook 100 meals a day (is a chef)
   • Prepositional phrase
     • At my school, as at most schools, pupils...
   • Conjunction (as+subject+verb)
     • She cut up the vegetables as I had taugh her (in the way I had taugh her)
   • Verb+object+as
     • He is known as a generous person

3. Like / Such as

   • For example
     • I enjoy films like/such as thrillers