Why Am just like him in a bad way?
Why “him” is an object pronoun in English? In grammar, we use the word “object” when we talk about the thing or person that the verb is done to, or who receives the verb. I don’t understand how a verb that is not an action but a condition can have an object.
“Classical” “object” pronouns are used for the objects of verbs. Objective pronouns have various uses. One common use of objective pronouns is for objects of prepositions. “Like” is often analyzed as a preposition in this context.
Can like be used as a conjunction, but there is a “traditional” aversion in prescriptivist sources to the use of like as a conjunction, see e.g. Huffington Post article on the use of Like and like as a conjunction), e.g. Is ‘like’ a logical conjunction in an economics equation? What do you think about it? Is it kind of the opposite of the situation with than, where “traditional” prescriptivist position is that than should only be used as a conjunction and not as a preposition?
