Why use As/help

Why use As/help
Message from university1984 posted on 16-09-2013 at 09:04:23 (D | E | F)
Hello,

Could you help me please?
There was heavy snow like as in the previous year according to my friends.
Why should we use "as“?
Thank you for your answers.

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Edited by lucile83 on 16-09-2013 09:19

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Re: Why use As/help from angel7, posted on 16-09-2013 at 12:05:16 (D | E)
Hello,
In this sentence the comparative word is like. As is used to make a reference to a specific snowy period in that previous year.
Hope it helps

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Edited by lucile83 on 16-09-2013 13:36

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Re: Why use As/help from bluduck2, posted on 16-09-2013 at 15:02:41 (D | E)
Hello,

The snow was as heavy as it was last year (comparative)
It snowed as heavily as it snowed last year ,it snowed as it did last year .
In correct English ,you do not write "it snowed like last year" (even though you hear it all the time ,especially in the USA !)
because "like" introduces a noun or a pronoun .
Ex :you talk about the weather like a meteorologist/like him /like her/.
I hope it helps !
Bluduck2

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Edited by lucile83 on 16-09-2013 15:25

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Re: Why use As/help from gerondif, posted on 16-09-2013 at 15:19:20 (D | E)
Hello,
There was heavy snow like / as in the previous year according to my friends. I suppose you have to choose, like and as can't both be in the sentence.

like (preposition) is followed by a noun, as (conjunction) is followed by a sentence (subject + verb)

It snowed a lot like last year.(not very elegant)
It snowed a lot as it did last year.
There was heavy snow as (there was)in the previous year, according to my friends.
I worked during the summer holidays just as I had done last year.

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