Hi Rafael, I'm a native English speaker from the US. I'll try my best but maybe others can add on. Like: You can like something, which means you enjoy it. For example, "I like pizza." Something can also be like something else or similar to it. For example, "A cheeseburger is like a hamburger but with cheese on it!" Like in this way is also sometimes used as a metaphor. For example, "The clouds are like cotton balls." Look Like: Something or someone can look like or be similar to something/someone else. For example, "She looks like her mom." (The similarity is based on her visual appearance.) You could also say, "She is like her mom," but if you say this, I'm not assuming the similarity is based on appearance. Maybe she is like her mom because they both speak loudly. We also use this phrase in a way that implies that maybe we don't know for certain but we think something. For example, "It looks like she is sad." or "It looks like (it will) rain." Alike Alike also means similar. For example, "The mother and daughter look alike." Or if you wanted to say, "The mother and daughter dress similar," you could say "the mother and daughter dress alike." "It's important to him that he treats his two kids alike and doesn't favor one over the other." (He treats them similarly, with no difference) I don't know if this helped. ~Michele

Hello! In this context, 'Like' is a linking verb. It is a way to say to things are similar, but not the same. Example: rap music is like poetry, (but it has music). 'Look like' is usually specifically for visual comparisons. "You look like you are tired." It conveys a similar meaning to 'I think you are tired, because you look tired' without the rude connotation of assuming someone else's feelings. 'You look like' also expects a response from whomever you are talking to. It is also often intonated as a questions "You look like you are tired?". Another way you will see like is 'looks like' which the first person singular. It looks like its going to rain. But it is often used in work settings more abstractly. "It looks like we will move ahead with this project." Alike is used to compare in the same way but it doesn't function as a verb in a sentence. Instead, it expresses the idea as an adjective. It isn't used as frequently in the American English dialect I speak as the other forms. Those friends are alike. Coke and Pepsi are alike. But you will often seek the verb look with alike "the houses all looked alike" "they look alike to me" "they look so alike" "they dressed alike in black pants and jackets"