Thieves like us

[Tibor Kiss]

Hi,

just a question to English grammarians:

In constructions like

(1) thieves like us
(2) A thief like Joe isn't easy to catch

do I assume correctly that the like-phrase is an adjunct to the head noun?

Best

T.

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