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they're like?

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:53 am
by pdh0224
Dear teacher,

Students feel the pressure, too, whether or not they are receiving help with test preparation. "Once they see their peers either getting tutoring or raising their scores as a result of tutoring, they're like, 'These are the guys I'm competing against,' " said Bruce Mendelsohn, who does one-on-one tutoring for the verbal section of the SAT's part-time in the Washington area.

Q : What is the function of "like" in the sentence?

What is the function of 'These are the guys I'm competing

against,' in the sentence?




All the best, :)

Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:23 am
by Alan
It is a popular nonstandard expression meaning 'they say/think something like...'.