[General] Is she your girlfriend?

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Silverobama

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Would you please help me correct my short conversation to make it natural?

Context: Zoe and I went to a speech club together:

Someone: Is she your girlfriend?
Silver: Does she look like? (Intended meaning: Does Zoe look like my (Silver's) girlfriend?)
Someone: Yeah, sure!
Silver: Okay, so be it. (Intended meaning: Okay, if you think she's my girlfriend, then she is. I don't want to explain.)

Is the italic conversation natural?
 
Silver: Does it look like it?
Someone: Yes, it does.

It's ungrammatical to say Does she look like? If you start a sentence this way, you have to put something at the end:

Doe she look like? :cross:
Does she look like my girlfriend? :tick:
 
Much appreciated, jutfrank. Is the conversation okay now?

Someone: Is she your girlfriend?
Silver: Does she look like my girlfriend?
Someone: Yeah, sure!
Silver: Okay, so be it. (Intended meaning: Okay, if you think she's my girlfriend, then she is. I don't want to explain.)


 
I'm not sure about Yeah sure! Some speakers might say that but it isn't very natural for me. The rest is okay. Your use of Okay, so be it is a little odd, but if I understand correctly, that's precisely how you're trying to sound. Another option there is Then she is.
 
A: Is he your boyfriend?
B: What do you think?
A: I think he is/I think he could be.
B: OK. Let's say yes, then!

I've created an alternative but similar dialogue above. I wasn't keen on "Yeah, sure" or "So be it" either.
 
Possibilities.

Bob: Hey Ron, is she your girlfriend?
Ron: No, she's just a friend.

Or:

Bob: Hey Ron, is she your girlfriend?
Ron: Does it look to you like she's my girlfriend?
Bob: Yes, it does.
Ron: Then she is. (Not really.)
 
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