Exercise 41. Use the appropriate form of subjunctive II in clauses of comparison and predicative clauses.

1. He looked at the icy thunder-rain as if it (to be) the end of the world. (D.H.L.) 2. I had never heard of Christophe before. "Was that before you met Dad?" "Sort of … " she replied. She was looking at me very intently, as if she (to watch) for some sort of sign. Then, breathing deeply again, she told me to sit down. (S.Times) 3. He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. His hair still lay in wisps over his head as though baldness (to be) his natural state. (W.G.) 4. Michael was not as tender as he had been. As if he (to be) on guard against her. But it was as if he never (to be) away. (M.P.) 5. The place was ghastly, somehow. It was as if violence (to visit) it in the midst of a cloistered silence. (E.Q.) 6. I stepped over the threshold and stopped dead. The small room looked as though it (to visit) by a tornado. (A.Chr.) 7. Her mind was as if a cyclone (to go) through it. And it seemed strange that the dining-room should be so unchanged from what it had always been as if nothing (to happen). (M.M.) 8. The paper says that the ghost was seen outside a big warehouse, then later among some big trucks outside a truckmen's diner. It almost looks as if the ghost (to look for) some place else to stay, now that his home is being torn down. (A.Hit.) 9. Jordon was lean and angular, and always looked as if he (to need) a good meal. (A.H.) 10. The caravans, the other women: everything was natural to her, her home, as if she (to be born) there. She wondered if the gipsy was aware of her. (D.H.L.) 11. Her charming way of treating me as if she and I (to be) of an age made conversation easy. (S.M.) 12. "They tried to kill my father and nearly did. Luca Brasi went after them. The story is that he killed six men in two weeks and that ended the famous olive oil war." He smiled as if it (to be) a joke. Kay shuddered. (M.P.)

Exercise 42. Paraphrase the following using complex sentences with clauses of comparison, e.g. He sighed. Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly as though speaking to only one person. à Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly as if they were speaking to only one person. (W.G.)

1. "I wish you would not treat me like a child of six," I said. 2. Joseph at this burst out into a wild fit of laughter, in which encounting the eye of Miss Sharp, he stopped all of a sudden, as if shot. 3. He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation like someone's unwrapping of great sheets of cellophane. 4. They both felt uncomfortable, as if not knowing whether to go on or go back. 5. She acted as if mad. 6. The woman's eyes were red so that it seemed that she had been crying. She took no notice as Cindy came in. 7. "Yes, sir." Mrs Potter began to wring her hands as if still over the tub. 8. The sun had gone and it seemed that the light had been turned off. 9. There was the unmistakable sound of running feet, accompanied by an uneven scraping, and it seemed that something was being dragged. 10. Both Simon and Piggy were looking up at the mountain. And Simon cried out as though having hurt himself. "Ralph! Ralph!" 11. Rosemary put up her face quietly to be kissed. He looked at her for a moment as if not understanding. 12. He greeted me with pleasant cordiality and indeed seemed so glad to see me that one might think I was an old friend. 13. "Shut up, you! Shut up!" Percival would not shut up. The crying went on, breath after breath, and seemed to sustain him upright so that it seemed that he was nailed to it. 14. It was impossible not to be moved when Larry spoke, haltingly as though forcing himself to say what he would sooner have left unsaid. (S.M.) 15. "You will order your little dinner every day; and anything you take a fancy to, I'm sure will be so readily provided that it may seem to you that you are a Lady." 16. "Well, don't say good-bye as though going away for ever," laughed Lily.

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