{"id":72137,"date":"2019-09-15T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72137"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T11:51:43","slug":"as-if-vs-as-though","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/as-if-vs-as-though\/","title":{"rendered":"As If vs. As Though"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if and as though mean the same. They are used to say what a situation seems like. It looks as if\/as though it is going to rain.<\/p>\n<h3>Tenses<\/h3>\n<p>To show that a comparison is unreal, we use a past tense with a present meaning after as if\/as though.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She looks as if\/as though she is rich. (Perhaps she is rich.)<\/li>\n<li>She looks as if\/as though she was rich. (She is not rich.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a formal style, were can be used instead of was to show that a comparison is unreal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She looks as if she were rich.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that we do not use a past perfect for a past unreal comparison.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She looked as if she was rich, but she wasn\u2019t. (NOT &#8212; as if she had been rich.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an informal style, like is often used instead of as if\/as though. This is common in American English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks like it is going to rain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if and as though mean the same. They are used to say what a situation seems like. It looks as if\/as though it is going to rain. Tenses To show that a comparison&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1283,1286,1285,1284],"class_list":["post-72137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-as-if","tag-as-if-or-as-though","tag-as-if-vs-as-though","tag-as-though"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72138,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72137\/revisions\/72138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}