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Exercise 4. Comment on the use of the Subjunctive Mood in clauses introduced by
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
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