As
As conjunction - The way it would be or one would do if.
Usage example: his face looked as he'd gotten a terrible shock
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As if and as are semantically related. In some cases you can use "As if" instead a conjunction "As".
As if
As if conjunction - The way it would be or one would do if.
Usage example: she looked as if she wanted to ask one more question before we left
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