Grambs essay (Blog Post #7)
October 22, 2009
I believe the main arguement in the Grambs’ essay was to point out the phrase “like” and to find out what kind of word it really is and where it belongs in the category of verbs, adj, adverbs, etc etc. You can tell that the author is trying to decipher the word “like” in this text “Here we read that the all-purpose, no-purpose like is not an adverb. It is not a conjunction. It’s an interjection. Now, does like express uncertainty-or expose it?” This quote from the text along with a few others is why i believe that the author is tying to figure out what kind of word “like” is, how and when it is used. The author grabs many different definitions of the word from different sources-”The unabridged Random House Dictionary” ” Webster’s colegiate Dictionary” and “Dumbing Down” just to name a few.
