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I had a good shot at the goal.

I had a good shoot at the goal.

Shoot (in football) is the verb. The noun is shot.

She said, 'You are a coward.'

She said, 'You are a coward boy.'

Coward (= one without courage) is the noun. The adjective is cowardly.

Andrew behaves friendly.

Andrew behaves in a friendly way.

The adverbial form is in a friendly way. Friendly is an adjective: a friendly game, to have friendly relations with one's neighbours, etc

Let's also do the next exercise.

Let me do and the next exercise.

Also possible:

Let me do the next exercise too.

And is a conjunction, and can only join similar forms of speech: He came and sat down. We can't use it instead of the adverbs also and too.

You don't look like your mother.

You don't look as your mother.

As is a conjunction, and is usually followed by a noun or pronoun in the nominative case. Like isn't a conjunction, but an adjective which behaves like a preposition being followed by a noun or pronoun in the objective case.

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