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Do you want to see my collection?

Do you like to see my collection?

Do you like to do something? means do you enjoy doing it as a habitual action. Do you want to do something? means do you wish to do it now.

I would/'d like means I want: I would/'d like (= I want) to play tennis today. Would you like (= do you want) to go for a walk with me? Would/'d like is more polite than want.

Please remember me to give it back.

Please remind me to give it back.

To remember is to have in mind: I remember what you told me. To remind is to make a person remember something.

I don't like him very much.

I don't sympathise him very much.

Sympathise isn't synonymous with like. To sympathise with means to share some feeling (usually of sorrow) with another person: I sympathise with you in your sorrow.

I like you! Will you marry me?

I love you! Will you marry me?

Both verbs can be used for people and things, the only difference is one of degree. Love is much stronger than like.

The ship sank in the ocean

The ship drowned in the ocean.

To be drowned refers to living things, and means to die in water, to sink refers to people or things, and means to go down to the bottom of wate

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