Questions tagged [as]
For questions about the word "as".
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Usage of "as" as a conjunction
Clearly here is a usage of "as" that i can't understand; as far as i understand, "as" is a subordinate conjunction that joins main clause + sub. clause.
Here we have ",as"...
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Can "as a tool" modify more than one verb?
Consider this example sentence:
The thing was owned, carried, or used as a tool.
(1) Does the "as a tool" act as an adjective for each verb? Rewritten: "The thing was owned (as a ...
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In '...as has often been the case',which content is the case?
From Roger Berry. (1993). Collins Cobuild English Guides: Articles. p. vii.
Rules of usage are given which are not misleading, as has often been the case.
Does 'as' here lead a non-restrictive ...
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Article "a" in "as good a job as"
As a learner, "as ... as" is always a little confusing. Say somebody said the following.
You should do at least as good a job as them.
Now I can understand how there is a noun between two ...
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Does "as" in "an aggressive critic of what he saw as unfair Japanese trade practices in the 1980s." mean "because"?
I'm reading a book named Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.
When I reading below paragraph：
Jerry Sanders : Founder and CEO of AMD; Silicon Valley’s most
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how to understand complex sentence using as?
He doesn’t sound nearly as eager to make small talk with this guy as he was with me.
How to parse and understand the above sentence?
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He enjoyed a drink after work, as is/does/did his wont
the definition of "wont" as a noun from britannica.com:
wont - (old-fashioned) a usual habit or way of behaving:
He enjoyed a drink after work, as is his wont ( = as he usually or often does)...
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Can the first "as" be omitted in an "as ~ as" clause?
I heard the following sentence on YouTube, and don't get the meaning of "as":
Despite only being around the same size as just California, Spain has more than five times the amount of high-...
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Is 'as' missing in 'he died a virgin'?
'He died a virgin.'
Or, 'he died as a virgin'?
Why 'as' is not used in the first sentence? Is is grammatically correct to use the first sentence?
I remember in America's got Talent a contestant said ...
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Meaning of He can run fast as I can
A. He is tall as I am.
B. He can run fast as I can.
C. He can sing as She can.
Are the sentences above grammatical? I used as instead of as...as construction. What are the meaning of these sentences? ...
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He did the same thing I did or he did the same as I did
A. He did the same thing I did.
B. He did the same as I did.
C. He did the same as I.
D. He did the same as me.
Do they mean the same? Are they grammatically correct? Which one is the most preferable?
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How to understand 'A is as simple as B is complicated'?
I see one sentence in my book:
It is easy to see that A is as simple as B is complicated.
I know the subject of the sentence is "it" that is "A is as simple as B is complicated", ...
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Which one sounds proper: "They didn't do as I asked." OR "They didn't do what I asked."
This is a sentence of a native English teacher, who tells about his experience on how to manage the classroom especially when students are noisy. He says what he did in the beginning of his career:
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We call the shots as we see them
I sometimes hear the sentence "we call the shots as we see them." I want to ask whether the as-clause modifies "shots" or "call”, just in the same way as "as we know it&...
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How should I interpret the 'as' in this sentence? Is the 'them' referring to 'foundation' or 'movies?'
How should I interpret the 'as' in this sentence? Also, is the word 'them' referring to 'foundation' or 'movies?'
In the process, they upended decades of established technique for how to make an ...
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the difference 'to' and 'as to'
a suggestion or proposal as to the best course of action, especially one put forward by an authoritative body.
If I change as to to to, as this:
a suggestion or proposal to the best course of action,...
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What does this "as-clause" modify?
He then describes the situation as he sees it in the public schools of the United states. (Source: COCA)
I want to know whether the as-clause "as he sees it in the public schools of the United ...
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She's going to tell the truth as she saw/understood it
In the sentence "She is going to tell the truth as she saw/understood it," the phrase "as she saw/understand it" modifies "tell"? This may be paraphrased as "She is ...
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as ... as - "African-American culture as embodied in music, art, and literature flourished as never before."
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African-American culture as embodied in music, art, and literature flourished as never before.
Is this sentence above an example of "as ... as"?
Or is it an example of ellipsis? What ...
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I don't understand this usage of "as"
One week later Roosevelt embargoed the export of such grades of oil as still were in commercial flow to Japan.
I don't understand this usage of "as". Is it the same as "which"? ...
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(1) I have as much money as you do vs (2) I have money as much as you do
(1) I have as much money as you do VS (2) I have money as much as you do
I can guess that the sentence (1) and (2) means a little bit different.
I'm sure that (1) makes sense
What I want to know is [...
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Can we separate the as ... as structure
I've learned that in the as ... as structure as shown in the following example:
"I want to know if he is as handsome as I imagined."
the first "as" is a degree adverb, the second &...
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as + adjective + as + pronoun [duplicate]
I have come across the sentence ": Dad's personal finances were about as healthy as he." and I can't help but feel something is wrong here, shouldn't it be " as healthy as he is" ...
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what does 'with n as adj' mean?
The sentence:
A WSGI-compliant server or gateway should document what variables it provides, along with their definitions as appropriate.
How to understand with their definitions as appropriate?
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all variants of writing the sentences where "as" means "and so" [closed]
As far as I know, if in some sentence "as" means "and so" this sentence can be written both with inversion and without it. Could you check my examples on this topic please:
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Possible meanings of "as" in specific context
What does 'as' mean in the following sentence?
"Have you seen the Parthenon in Nashville? It's a marvellous thing. I
mean, there's nothing else in the world that gives us as vivid a
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"as if " clause versus "if" clause
Suppose I know he was ill yesterday. Here are two examples referring to unreality.
He behaved as if he was not ill.
if he had not been ill, we would have had a nice time yesterday.
Why we must use &...
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Function of "as" in "Something is as what we would like it to be"
Today I've come across an English sentence that is "Something is as we would like it to be."
According to English grammar and the context, I think "as" there can only be an adverb ...
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IWhat is the meaning of the beat in this paragraph?
I have been reading an essay about Joan Didion from New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/joan-didion-and-the-voice-of-america)
I would like to ask multiple questions in this essay. ...
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Can "available as" be used to suggest another way to access an object?
I tried to find an example from non-IT world, but failed. A technical description is as follows. I was trying to phrase it while working on an angularjs project. Consider the following sentence:
Root ...
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"in as many weeks" and "as" meaning
I've seen a sentence like this:
North Korea's internet appears to have been hit by a second wave of outages in as many weeks.
I wonder what does "in as many weeks" mean and specifically &...
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the same language as each other / the same language with each other
Most people in these countries speak the same language as each other – English. [There was a comparison between two countries in the text.]
Most people in these countries speak the same language with ...
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"so many books as I would like." / "so many books as I would like to have."
I don’t have so many books as I would like.
I don’t have so many books as I would like to have.
Am I right that both versions sound good, or only the second one?
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He doesn’t love her half as he pretends
He doesn’t love her half as he pretends.
Is something wrong with that sentence? Why? Because of "half"?
As I know it, the version "He doesn’t love her half as much as he pretends."...
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Meaning of “as”
Can someone explain the meaning and function of “as” here:
Mediated by the hallucinatory hellscapes of Chicago drill as pioneered by Chief Keef, the UK version is essentially a South London chapter ...
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Articles as manager/as a manager [duplicate]
I'd be happy to see Jim as manager.
That might be a little confusing because they know me as manager.
We will work with him on the issue, in his capacity as manager of the company.
But as manager, you ...
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Does "as, well, as" mean "as well as" or "as"?
The context
In fact, those people were probably disappointed when they saw another show that didn’t contain something as, well, as elaborate or exciting.
Sentence A.
when they saw another show that ...
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A confusing structure: verb+ing as ... do
I came across a confusing structure from Arthur Schopenhauer. Here is the text:
Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel are not philosophers, lacking as they do
the first requisite for being counted as such: ...
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Two parts in "as" clause
"This book has put on weight with the passing years, as new chapters
have been added and existing chapters updated and expanded to stay
abreast of changing developments in economies around the ...
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What does this 'only as valuable as' mean in the context?
He soon developed new categories of these notes. He realised that one idea, one note was only as valuable as its context, which was not necessarily the context it was taken from.
The 2rd sentence, I ...
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as I am her mother
a. As her mother, I will decide what she will wear to the party.
b. As I am her mother, I will decide what she will wear to the party.
Do the above sentences mean the same?
In (b) it is clear that the ...
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"Less babies as they are having, there still increases the population." [closed]
Is it right to say like this sentence?
Less babies as they are having, there still increases the population.
I mean
Although they're having less babies, the population still increases.
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Which one is grammatically correct: "use cup as a measurement system" or "use cup as measurement system"?
The question is whether there should be an indefinite article a before measurement or not. In general, "as a something, we use something else" or "as something, we use something else&...
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"As was [past participle]" construction
Here is a sentence from Robin Hood:
Because he did sell three times as much for one penny as was sold by the other butchers.
I do not understand "as was sold by the other butchers." Are ...
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What does "even had the Archaic Greeks thought in such terms" means?
my friends,
I have a question from a book. Here is the quote:
The appeal to massive supernatural forces in order to account for
large-scale physical events is explanation of a sort: but it appears
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They worked as (if) crazy
Like "as if '' is standard in informal speech and writing with some
adjectives: They worked like crazy/mad.
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/like
Is They worked as if crazy grammatically ...
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as ... as structure is very difficult to understand!
I can't understand as ... as structures in English. According to grammar books between the two as we should place an adjective, but I have seen several cases which there was something else. For ...
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Some Odd Word Order in The Comparison Structure As...As
As we know, in the structure as...as the first as modify the adjective or adverb that goes after it. We can also use a noun modified by an adjective in the structure; for example,
They have as much ...
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Why is this awkward? "You're as quick to jump in as always."
You're as quick to jump in as always.
They say the natural way to say this is "You're quick to jump in as always" without the first as. But don't you use "as as" phrase like "...
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What does "as popular as it has ever been" mean?
It is as popular today as it has ever been.
What does it mean by "as popular as it has ever been"?
The level of popularity today is the same as the one in the past when it was the highest.
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