Exercise 4

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 438.

Exercise 3

Make up complex sentences with adverbial clauses of comparison according to the models.

Model 1: Principal clause + as if Subordinate clause

as though Subjunctive mood forms of the

type “were”/”spoke”

(“had been”/”had spoken”)

e.g. She speaks (spoke) English so well as if she were a native.

She looks (looked) so pale as though she had been ill for some time.

1. He dances so well as if …

2. He treated me so badly as though …

3. … as she had never seen me.

4. She ran so fast as if …

5. The little girl behaved …

6. … as though I were a stranger.

7. I will act as if …

8. The boy was stammering as if …

Model 2: as if + indicative mood[15]

as though

e.g. He acts as if he is a coward.

He acted as if he was a coward.

1. He teaches them so well as if …

2. She is reciting the poem in such a hurry as if …

3. … as though he has lived here for ages.

4. They were packing so hastily as though …

5. … as if she does not know me.

6. She passed by without greeting me as if …

Open the brackets using the required form of the verb.

1. I advise you to receive me as if nothing (to happen)… (Show).

2. The old man said nothing, but he folded the white square of paper as if it (to be) the legal deed of land in itself (Aldridge).

3. I lowered the boat more carefully than I (to raise) it … (Aldridge).

4. I knew you better than you (to know) me now (Saxton).

5. I don't feel half as mean as I (to do) (Greene).

6. But it was plain that he admired Judith immediately hanging over her with a merry possessive look as though at any moment he (to pick her up) and (to slip) her into his deep coat-pocket (Walpole).

7. My mother was a very poor woman who had no reasonable choice but to do as she (to do) (Shaw).

8. … Andrews turned around at her as if she just (to occur) to him in his own mind (Aldridge).

9. Knocking out his pipe on the heel of his boot, Philip inspected it as though as though it (to demand) all his attention (Cronin).

10. Then he laughed as he never (to laugh) before (Aldridge).

11. Come, my child; you must not trifle with me as if I (to be) a stranger (Shaw).

12. She closed her eyes as though she too (to be) tired (Maurier).

13. I had to smile as though I (to know) all about it …(Maurier).