Name: Everyday Grammar: As If, As Though
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T03:55:58.000Z
Duration: 2 min 1 s
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Modal verbs - A2

It you think I can become a professional skydiver, as if you're totally afraid of heights.

But the way you were talking, it's as if you were a professional skydiver.

Well, I am really no, as if and as though our conjunctions that have similar meetings there, followed by Klaus, a group of words with a subject and a predicate the structures as if as though plus a clause, are used to describe something that is unreal.

Let's think about the statement that Tom is a child you could use as if to show that the idea following as if is untrue.

Considered the statement he had never met her.

You could use as though to show that the idea is untrue.

He acted as though he had never met her, sometimes in conversation speakers used as if and as though in slightly different ways, the idea in the clause may be true.

This is a bit difficult, but here's a good tip to help you in conversation.

 Speakers often used as if and as though after the verbs feel and look, they felt as though they were told the wrong information, and that's everyday grammar. 

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Everyday Grammar: As If, As Though

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