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Same

We normally use the before same.

• We have lived in the same house for twenty years.
• He is the same age as his wife.
• Her hair is the same colour as her mother’s.

Before a clause, the same … that or the same …who can be used.

• This is the same man that/who asked me for money yesterday.

The same means in the same way.

• If you leave me I shall never feel the same again.