Today I stumbled upon two different sources of information:
and these got me confused, because look like + clause sounds so natural to me and BBC has always been my favorite page for learning English. However as a true learner I simply cannot turn a blind eye to a piece of information because it's unpopular.
So, the bottom line question is: is it possible to have a clause following the look like structure?
"It looks like it will rain."
If you mean in the context of
it seems as though it will rain
or
it appears it will rain
Then absolutely you can say, "It looks like it will rain". I don't know where the "grammar errors" site is getting its information, but (at least in American English) this is used all the time.
She looks like she's about ten years old.
It looks like there are going to be a lot of people at the conference.
It looks like that site is offering grammar "rules" without sources to back them up.