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Can someone please help me understand which of the two, 'looked' vs 'looked like' is better.

to compare two examples " i still remember how he looked" or "i still remember how he looked like". Out of these two which one is better, and is there a different example wherein the choice, which is incorrect here, works.

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Can someone please help me understand which of the two, 'looked' vs 'looked like' is better.

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Can someone please help me understand which of the two, 'looked' vs 'looked like' is better.

to compare two examples " i still remember how he looked" or "i still remember how he looked like". Out of these two which one is better, and is there a different example wherein the choice, which is incorrect here, works.
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"How he looked like" doesn't work at all. There's no context in which this is a valid construction.

How is this question related to GMAT sentence correction?
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Can someone please help me understand which of the two, 'looked' vs 'looked like' is better.

to compare two examples " i still remember how he looked" or "i still remember how he looked like". Out of these two which one is better, and is there a different example wherein the choice, which is incorrect here, works.


"How he looked like" doesn't work at all. There's no context in which this is a valid construction.

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Saw this split in a SC question. The difference between the two slipts was between 'looked' and 'looked like' at the end of the sentence. can't post the question due to copyright issues.
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Can someone please help me understand which of the two, 'looked' vs 'looked like' is better.

to compare two examples " i still remember how he looked" or "i still remember how he looked like". Out of these two which one is better, and is there a different example wherein the choice, which is incorrect here, works.


"How he looked like" doesn't work at all. There's no context in which this is a valid construction.

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Is there any example wherein 'looked like' at the end of the sentence actually works?

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Hi Jayantalawadhi,

If you have an Official SC that presented these options, then I'd like to see the FULL prompt (since neither option appears correct outside of a larger sentence. In context, there's some ambiguity in the phrase "I still remember how he looked".... Are you trying to communicate that you remember this person's physical appearance OR are you trying to communicate that you remember how this person was searching for something. You could fix that issue by changing the vocabulary (for example: "I still remember how he was dressed"). The phrase "I still remember how he looked like" sounds as though it's missing some words at the end.

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Hi Jayantalawadhi,

If you have an Official SC that presented these options, then I'd like to see the FULL prompt (since neither option appears correct outside of a larger sentence. In context, there's some ambiguity in the phrase "I still remember how he looked".... Are you trying to communicate that you remember this person's physical appearance OR are you trying to communicate that you remember how this person was searching for something. You could fix that issue by changing the vocabulary (for example: "I still remember how he was dressed"). The phrase "I still remember how he looked like" sounds as though it's missing some words at the end.

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No sir, the prompt was different. It was also in a totally different context. The sentence talked about buildings. I dont recall the exact sentence as they were identical in all other aspects. the only difference between the two sentences was the presence of 'like'
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Suppose you are showing an old photograph to somebody. You could say, "This is what he looked like". Or "This is what I looked like".

Here is a better sentence that works even in isolation:
We know so little about Shakespeare that we don't even know for sure what he looked like.

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Is there any example wherein 'looked like' at the end of the sentence actually works?
Suppose you are showing an old photograph to somebody. You could say, "This is what he looked like". Or "This is what I looked like".

Here is a better sentence that works even in isolation:
We know so little about Shakespeare that we don't even know for sure what he looked like.

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Thank you so much for quoting an example. This helps a lot.
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"I still remember how he looked like" is not standard.
"I still remember what he looked like" is fine.

In "I still remember how he looked" the grammar and usage are fine. But, as EMPOWERgmatRichC explained, the meaning is ambiguous.

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