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Voytaszek Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

As if

What's the difference in the meaning here?


He's behaving as if he was a policeman.


He's beahving as if he is a policeman.

  

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Voytaszek He's behaving as if he was a policeman. He is behaving like an ex-policeman. Voytaszek He's beahving as if he is a policeman.

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VoytaszekHe's behaving as if he was a policeman.

He is behaving like an ex-policeman.

VoytaszekHe's beahving as if he is a policeman.

He is behaving like a policeman. [Note: you could say this about a real policeman who has, perhaps, been known not to behave properly, as much as somebody who is not a policeman at a