The plenitude of the classical architecture.

Yard of St. Damaso by Bramante; about 1505.

Before that Julio II acceded to the papacy and started his great construction enterprises with which he make greater Rome and the Vatican, the cristian temple model varies between the basilica plan and the centralized plan, such as happened with the Brunelleschi's church in Florencia, they still followed romanic or gotic standars adapted to the new classical language.

Cloister of  the  church  Santa Maria della Pace,

Difference between like and as. Diferencia entre "like" y "as".

LIKE
1- The word "like" is a preposition, it means a word that links another words:  

• She walks like a duck. 
• The manager is like a father for Robert. 

2- "Like" can imply a relation between two things that are similar but are not the same thing (comparison). In the last sentence "the manager" actually isn't the father of Robert, but he acts like his father.
3- The complement in the sentences with "like" is simple, is a noun without any verb. "a duck", "a father", etc.  
AS
1- "As" is a conjunction, one word that relates two or more phrases.

•  I as the attendant have to do it..

• The engineer has worked as calculist for three years.

2- "As" involves a description of the subject..It is not a comparison. In the first statement "I" am an attendant. In the second "the engineer" is a calculist.

 

HOW

1- The word "how" is an adverb, a word that complements and explains to verb.

How did she do it? - I don't know how she did it.

Let me show you how do it.

This blog is an exercise for improve my english and force me myself to write in English. I will try to write about a doubts that I have about the English and the answers I find in the web.