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2017年、 立会川緑道。

覆い被さるように咲き誇る里桜が日差しを遮る。

Can’t believe how many vocabulary and grammar is here for me in one sentence.

語彙

• 覆い被さる (おおいかぶさる) – covering
• 咲き誇る (さきほこる) – blooming magnificently
• 里桜 (さとざくら) – it’s pronounced as りお when it’s a name
• 日差し (ひざし) – sunlight
• 遮る (さえぎる) – to block

The village cherry blossoms, blooming magnificently as if to cover everything, block the sunlight.

文法 – ように (adverb)

Meaning: as if/like

Usage:

verb (casual)/noun + の + ように + verb/adjective

Examples

• 覆い被さるように咲き誇る – blooming magnificently as if to cover (everything)
• 風のように走る – running like the wind

Related – ような (na-adjective)

Meaning: as if/like

Usage:

verb (casual)/noun + の + ような + noun

Examples

• 雲のような白いドレス – white dress like cloud
• 世界が終わるような大事件 – an event as if the world is ending

Reference

I actually like this reference more than treating ように and ような as different cases like most articles on the internet.

I think it is best if you just treat 様 (よう) as a normal noun. With other nouns, you should be using のよう because that is how nouns modify each other. With na-adjs, you should be using なよう because that is how they modify nouns.

For adjectives which one applies? ように or ような