Sentence Correction Guide - Idiom - p165

[jonathanc]

Hello,

I am trying to work on the idioms with the MGMAT guide (4th edition).

P165 : Resemble

"A certain coffee mug resembles my father".

I checked my dictionary and resemble apparently means "Looks like" so there is something I dont understand .

After few weeks trying to improve SC I reached the conclusion that we are supposed to compare logical things. When we use this kind of verb (Looks like, Seems etc...) is this not a kind of comparison ?

Here an object - mug to a person. Shouldnt we say something like

The shape of the coffe mug resembles the shape of my father's head. Or something like this. Does that mean that resemble can be use in any situation , and is it the case of other same kind of verbs ?

Thank to anybody who can to clear up this confusion...

John

[StaceyKoprince]

Huh. I find that wording kind of odd, too. I agree that, from a comparison perspective, it doesn't make much sense to say a coffee mug resembles a particular person (unless it's a very oddly shaped coffee mug, I suppose!).

The bigger lesson here, though, is how to use resemble correctly and incorrectly (the "suspect" line right below that line in the book).