Such...as ~
Signs may include memory loss, especially about recent events, confusion about time and place, poor judgement and changes in abilities to do such things as drive, handle money, take medicine, cook, dress, and bathe.
I can understand the meaning of the sentence above, but I can't understand the grammatical structure (such things ad drive ~). For reference, the text was quoted from a book for English reading published in Korea.
1) Is it possible to list several verbs after 'as' ? I think it is better to change those verbs into the form of gerund (driving, handling money, taking medicine ~)
2) 'as' is a preposition or an adverb?
Thank you for reading my question.
Top answer
I would have used gerunds if I had written the sentence. Prepositions are adverbial in that they often tell where or when. "
- I would have used gerunds if I had written the sentence.
- Prepositions are adverbial in that they often tell where or when.
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I would have used gerunds if I had written the sentence.
Prepositions are adverbial in that they often tell where or when. "Such as" means "like."
0To clarify, the writer has shortened the infinitive form of the verbs and could (more fully) have written,
"to do such things as to drive, to handle money, to take medicine, to cook, to dress, and to bathe."
However, that would be unnecessarily cumbersome.
1. I agree that in t
0Hoonyto do such things as drive, handle money, ...
The rule is to echo doing with -ing forms, and all other forms of do with the infinitive with or without to.
What we do is handle money, ... / to handle money, ...
What we did was drive, ... / to drive ...
What we were doing was driving, ...
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