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Rizan Malik Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Imagine someone when ha was...

Consider these sentences, please:

1) Imagine Robert Redford when he was a child - that's what John looks like.

2) Imagine Robert Redford as a child - that's what John looks like.

Question 1
: Can I say that the underlined clauses in 1 and 2 are modifying the noun "Robert Redford" adjectivally?

Question 2: Comparing 1 with 2, can we say that "as" in sentence 2 is not a preposition, but rather an adverbial conjunction of time? For example:

Imagine Robert Redford as he was a child - that's what John looks like.

  

Top answer

Rizan Malik Question 1: Can I say that the underlined clauses in 1 and 2 are modifying the noun "Robert Redford" adjectivally? Yes. They are like "young".

  • Rizan Malik Question 1: Can I say that the underlined clauses in 1 and 2 are modifying the noun "Robert Redford" adjectivally?
  • Yes.
  • They are like "young".
  • Rizan Malik Question 2: Comparing 1 with 2, can we say that "as" in sentence 2 is not a preposition, but rather an adverbial conjunction of time?
  • No.
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Rizan MalikQuestion 1: Can I say that the underlined clauses in 1 and 2 are modifying the noun "Robert Redford" adjectivally?

Yes. They are like "young".

Rizan MalikQuestion 2: Comparing 1 with 2, can we say that "as" in sentence 2 is not a preposition, but rather an adverbial conjunction of time?

No. I have to cal

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