To treat somebody in the same way as/in which/that/x they have treated you.

[kadioguy]

[My sentences]

a. To treat somebody in the same way as they have treated you.
b. To treat somebody in the same way in which they have treated you.
c. To treat somebody in the same way that they have treated you.
d. To treat somebody in the same way they have treated you.
e. To treat somebody as they have treated you.
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Do all of them work and mean the same?

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes, but they're not sentences as they don't contain a main verb.

 

[kadioguy]

... they're not sentences as they don't contain a main verb.

How about "My phrases"?

 

[emsr2d2]

It would be better (for you and us) if you incorporated those fragments into full sentences for us to consider, and repost them as a response (please don't edit post #1 now that it has responses).

 

[kadioguy]

It would be better (for you and us) if you incorporated those fragments into full sentences for us to consider, and repost them as a response (please don't edit post #1 now that it has responses).

Please see below:

a. I am not sure if it is good to treat somebody in the same way as they have treated you.
b. I am not sure if it is good to treat somebody in the same way in which they have treated you.
c. I am not sure if it is good to treat somebody in the same way that they have treated you.
d. I am not sure if it is good to somebody in the same way they have treated you.
e. I am not sure if it is good to treat somebody as they have treated you.

 

[jutfrank]

I say a. is wrong. I'll argue that b. is wrong too, given the repetition of in. If the first in were removed, it would be okay.

d. is the most natural in a casual spoken register, followed closely by c.

 

[kadioguy]

I say a. is wrong. I'll argue that b. is wrong too, given the repetition of in. If the first in were removed, it would be okay.

d. is the most natural in a casual spoken register, followed closely by c.

But (a) isn't unusual in dictionaries:

to return the compliment (= to treat somebody in the same way as they have treated you)
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/compliment_1?q=compliment

People don't look after other people's property in the same way as they look after their own.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/look-after

For (b), here is a similar example:

If you live by a particular rule, belief, or ideal, you behave in the way in which it says you should behave.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/live

I think that the pattern is like this:

1. they have treated you in the way.
2. to treat somebody in the same way.

We rewrite "in the way" in (1) as in which. Thus, "to treat somebody in the same way in which they have treated you".

 

[Tdol]

Not even if they have treated you well?