'What/how' does she look like?

[Mehrgan]

Hi all,

Are the answers to both question forms (starting with 'how', and 'what') exatly the same? Is either choice more common in everyday English?

 

[Rover_KE]

'How does she look like?' is incorrect.

Use either 'How does she look?' (Answer: 'beautiful') or 'What does she look like?' (Answer: 'a fairytale princess').

 

[Mehrgan]

Thanks a lot! Should the answer to the second form (starting with 'what') necessarily involve a resemblance? (I was wondering if we could still say, beautiful'.)

 

[bhaisahab]

Thanks a lot! Should the answer to the second form (starting with 'what') necessarily involve a resemblance? (I was wondering if we could still say, beautiful'.)

You could.

 

[anhnha]

'How does she look like?' is incorrect.

Use either 'How does she look?' (Answer: 'beautiful') or 'What does she look like?' (Answer: 'a fairytale princess').

Can I reply the question by using the adverb "beautifully"?

 

[Chicken Sandwich]

Can I reply the question by using the adverb "beautifully"?

Would you say, "She looks beautiful" or "She looks beautifully"?

 

[BobK]

:up:

Can I reply the question by using the adverb "beautifully"?

In other words, you can, but if you did you'd be wrong. In any case, to give other students a fighting chance, you should say in your post that you're not a teacher. ;-)

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[Raymott]

Hi all,

Are the answers to both question forms (starting with 'how', and 'what') exatly the same? Is either choice more common in everyday English?

If you've never seen a person before, you ask, "What does she look like?" This is very general: "she's beautiful, she looks like a bit like her sister, she looks like an Olympic weightlifter, she looks part-Asian, etc."

If you do know what she looks like, you can still ask "How does she look?" Some typical answers are "she looks well, happy, excited to have won, a bit lonely, slightly better than yesterday ..." That is, "How does she look?" is not asking for a primary physical description.