Connectors and an introduction to complex meaning

Different types of meaning

Manner

Another type of meaning that you can create with connectors is 'manner', or the way something happened. They create this meaning by drawing a comparison.

Now I had prickly heat like my whole skin was burning, hot pinpricks all over me.

Burning for RevengeJohn MarsdenSource

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Water gushed into the boat like it was trying to escape from some terrible monster.

Dad was talking as if I didn't know my teeth from my elbow.

Jakub Svoboda made dumplings how generations of Svobodas had always made dumplings.

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