Exercise 2

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 550.

Analise the moods of the verbs in bold type in the adverbial clauses of comparison and manner joined by “as if”, “as though”.

1. I can see her as though it were but yesterday (Maurier).

2. Stephanie continued to read as if no one else were in the room (Saxton).

3. This is the last letter I shall write to you … if I should happen to return, when we meet I will act as if this had never been written (Wilson).

4. The world saw serious and rather silent little man … going about his work as though he would go on doing it for ever (Deeping).

5. … she ‘ll proceed with her French lesson, as if nothing had happened (Bennett).

6. I found you staring at me across the kitchen table as if you'd never seen me before (Saxton).

7. She dropped the journal as if it had been a living coal of fire (Galsworthy).[13]

8. Leeds shook her head again as if she could find no words to express herself (Saxton).

9. Erik, don't say it as if you hate me (Wilson).

10. If he is able to have dinner with you, take a book to your window as though you want to catch the light (Greene).

11. Johnny kept glancing at him as he were trying to think of something to say (Saxton).

12. And I treat a duchess as if she was a flower girl (Shaw).[14]

13. Are you still working for your uncle? “Oh, yes,” replied Clyde quickly, as though it would make an enormous difference to her if he were not (Dreiser).