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The word spans almost all parts of speech and can serve as an adjective ( she mastered lacrosse, field hockey, and like sports). You can also point out that like serves as a noun, as in likes and dislikes. They use it to show identity ( is), not similarity ( like): He’s like tall. Thus the commercial “I want to be like Mike” has its grammar in order.īut virtually everyone addicted to the like word uses it to show not what something is like but what something actually is. Indeed, go ahead and point out that to be can join like if they truly want to show what something or somebody was like. Your children can say, “He runs like the wind.” Point out that it also serves as a preposition and in that capacity hooks nouns to sentences.

Your children can say, “I like waffles” or “I would like another serving.” If your children ask about the correct meaning of like, point out that it serves as a verb, all by itself. The only function it doesn’t serve? It isn’t a pronoun. The word like serves as seven of the parts of speech.