She looked at him

[Alex Perfilov]

Hi!
Here is a sentence:
She looked at him as if he was a nobody.

Can I also say this phrase as follows:
She looked at him like a nobody.
She saw him as a nobody.

Thank you!

 

[Raymott]

Hi!
Here is a sentence:
She looked at him as if he was a nobody.

Can I also say this phrase as follows:
She looked at him like a nobody. This is wrong. Even if it was common to say (which it isn't), it would be ambiguous.
She saw him as a nobody.

Thank you!

No, those remaining two sentences do not mean the same thing, so you can't use one in place of the other.
Would you like to guess what they mean?

 

[Alex Perfilov]

The point is that these two sentences were suggested as an alternative to the first one.
Then, could you explain to me the meaning of the "She saw him as a nobody." ?

 

[bhaisahab]

The point is that these two sentences were suggested as an alternative to the first one.
Then, could you explain to me the meaning of the "She saw him as a nobody." ?

Raymott asked you to guess the meaning.

 

[Alex Perfilov]

I think the meaning of this phrase is:
6) If you see someone or something as a certain thing, you have the opinion that they are that thing.

'If so, the 'She saw him as a nobody' means the same as 'She looked at him as if he was a nobody'.
Am I wrong?

 

[bhaisahab]

I think the meaning of this phrase is:
6) If you see someone or something as a certain thing, you have the opinion that they are that thing.

'If so, the 'She saw him as a nobody' means the same as 'She looked at him as if he was a nobody'.
Am I wrong?

"She saw him as a nobody" means that her opinion of him was that he was a nobody. "She looked at him as if he was/were a nobody" means that at some point, she regarded him with a look on her face that suggested that she thought he was a nobody.

 

[Alex Perfilov]

Thank you!

 

[Alex Perfilov]

One more question, please:

Now he just wished for her to look at him like anyone.
She looks at him like no one.

These two phrases are at the end of this page

Does that mean that she looks at him as if she were anyone/no one ?
(And are these phrases grammatically correct?)
Can the sentence from my first post (She looked at him like a nobody) mean the same as these two do?

 

[5jj]

Those two sentences sound very strange to me.