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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Using as
Salaam again!
Djinn was torturing me with a few more doubts, for example, metaphorical statements with as: As the world was more or less a prison, the poor were the prisoners and the rich were the guards. (since the world is not prison etc., must we necessarily use 'if' statements to show that these are unlikely scenarios?)
2) She could distinguish between X and Y.
She could distinguish X from Y. (are both forms okay?)
Regards,
Djinn was torturing me with a few more doubts, for example, metaphorical statements with as: As the world was more or less a prison, the poor were the prisoners and the rich were the guards. (since the world is not prison etc., must we necessarily use 'if' statements to show that these are unlikely scenarios?)
2) She could distinguish between X and Y.
She could distinguish X from Y. (are both forms okay?)
Regards,
Top answer
" If the world were round we would all fall off. As the world is not round, we have nothing to worry about. If he wants to say the world is a prison, grammar doesn't forbid his doing so.
- " If the world were round we would all fall off.
- As the world is not round, we have nothing to worry about.
- If he wants to say the world is a prison, grammar doesn't forbid his doing so.
- Both the forms in (2) are okay.
- Also, she could tell the difference between X and Y.
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The truth or falsity of the statement doesn't determine the choice of "if/as/since."
If the world were round we would all fall off.
As the world is not round, we have nothing to worry about.
If he wants to say the world is a prison, grammar doesn't forbid his doing so.
Both the forms in (2) are okay.
Also, she could tell the difference between
If the world were round we would all fall off.
As the world is not round, we have nothing to worry about.
If he wants to say the world is a prison, grammar doesn't forbid his doing so.
Both the forms in (2) are okay.
Also, she could tell the difference between
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