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as if and as though.
1. For a moment or two she remained by the desk, one hand touching the telephone, as if a
thread of contact still remained.
2. He had been feeling more comfortable every day, in fact he was beginning to feel as if he`d
never been away.
3. He looked at me as though he wanted to ask me something.
4. She looked fresh and clean as though nothing had happened to her that night.
5. She looked as though she had been crying.
6. Aibek gazed at it a moment as if something were scratching him.
7. It was Sunday, and there was a feeling of quietness, a silence as though nature were at rest.
8. His heart labored as though it were pumping sand, not blood, not liquid, he thought.
9. I sat in the garden feeling as though I were home again.
10. It was as if someone he had never known had written the story.
Exercise 5. Supply the necessary forms of the Subjunctive Mood in clauses introduced
by as if and as though.
1. Whenever I saw them it looked as though they (to be) on very good terms with one another.
2. The knife shone as though it just (to come) out of the workshop.
3. Fred wasn`t shy, and he talked to Gracie`s parents as though he (to know) them all his life.
4. His tanned, smooth skin looked as though a razor never (to touch) it.
5. You behave as if you (to be married) to her already.
6. You look as though you (not to have) much sleep the last night or two.
7. She noticed a shade of thought pass over his face as if he (to begin) to realize that things
were changed.
8. He felt as if he (to catch) cold.
9. He leaned against the desk, and upon my word he was shaking as though he (to get) fever.
10. He looked as if he (not to sleep) much lately.
11. She always smelled as though she just (to come) from a long walk in a forest.
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