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park sang joonCan I think #1 like following?Life as we have known (as what life was), it is over.That makes little sense. The meaning is more like "Life, in the way that we have known life, is over" This rather strange sentence might be said of, for example, a formerly fit and active person who is now lying in a coma from which they will not emerge. Technical
park sang joon1) Life as we have known it is over.2) Language as we know it is a unique human property.In the above sentences, each 'as' is a relative pronoun'as' is a conjunction here.
fivejedjon'As' is never a relative pronoun in standard English.But we have been taught such 'as's as in my examples is relative pronoun In Korea, but I lost the conviction for some reasons.