{"id":73771,"date":"2020-04-05T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73771"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:36:58","slug":"correct-use-of-some-conjunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/correct-use-of-some-conjunctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Correct Use Of Some Conjunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The conjunction as can show reason. It is also used to talk about two actions or situations that develop simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>As<\/strong> it was a busy day, I didn&#8217;t get time to even have my lunch.<\/li><li><strong>As<\/strong> she is pretty, everyone wants to make friends with her.<\/li><li>I met Rahul <strong>as<\/strong> I was walking down the road. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As <\/strong>can also show the manner in which something is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nobody loves her <strong>as<\/strong> I do. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/conjunctions-prepositions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/conjunctions-prepositions.jpg\" alt=\"conjunctions and prepositions worksheet\" class=\"wp-image-77546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/conjunctions-prepositions.jpg 792w, https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/conjunctions-prepositions-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/conjunctions-prepositions-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/conjunctions-prepositions-640x385.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Answers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Do as I say. (As is a conjunction. It is followed by a clause.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. She works like a horse. (Like is a preposition. It is followed by a noun or noun phrase.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. It is not as bad as you think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Tired as he was, he continued to work. (It means the same as &#8216;Though he was tired, he continued to work.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. As I was feeling sleepy, I went to bed early. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Pretty as she was, she had few friends. (We can also write: Though she was pretty, she had few friends.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. She studied hard so as to get the first rank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. She worked really hard so that she would get the first rank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. He does not smoke like his father. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. You can have .as many cookies as you want. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/conjunctions-and-or-but.htm\">Correct use of some conjunctions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conjunction as can show reason. It is also used to talk about two actions or situations that develop simultaneously. As it was a busy day, I didn&#8217;t get time to even have my&#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":[1280,81,2517],"class_list":["post-73771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-as","tag-conjunctions","tag-such-as"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73771","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=73771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77549,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73771\/revisions\/77549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}