[GIU] UNIT115 Like/ as if/ as though

​​​UNIT115
​​Like/ as if/ as though

​​​A. 누군가 또는 무엇인가가 어떻게 보이고/들리고/느껴지는지 말할 때 ​like를 사용할 수 있다.
You can use ​like to say how somebody or something ​looks/ sounds/ feels:

That building ​looks like it's going to fall down.
She had just come back from vacation, but she feel very tired. She don't ​feel like she just had a vacation.

이러한 예들에 ​as if와 ​as though 모두 사용할 수 있다:
That building looks ​as if it's going to fall down.
She doesn't feel ​as though she just had vacation.

​Like is more common in spoken English.

비교:
You look ​tired. (​look + adjective)
You look ​like you didn't sleep last night.
​as if
(​look like / ​as if + subject + verb)

​​​B.​ It looks like.../ It sounds like... 표현 가능:
I took an umbrella because ​it looked like it was going to rain.
Do you feel that strange vibrations? ​It feels like the earthquakes.

​as if와 ​as though도 사용 가능:
It looks ​as if she isn't coming.
It looks ​as though she isn't coming.

​​​C. 누군가가 무엇인가를 어떻게 하는지 말하기 위해 ​like/ as if/ as though와 다른 동사들을 쓸 수 있다:
He ​ran like he was running for his life.
After the earthquakes, the minister ​kept on talking as if it was not serious situation.
When I told them my plan, they ​looked at me as though I was crazy.

​​​D. 현재를 표현하기 위해 우리는 종종 ​as if 다음에 과거를 사용하여 표현한다. 예를 들면:
I don't like him. He talks ​as if he ​knew everything.

이것은 문장 속에서 과거가 아니다. 실제 사실이 아니기 때문에 과거를 사용해 표현한다: He does not know everything. ​If 문장이나 ​wish 다음에도 같은 방식으로 과거를 사용한다.

Ace's only 29. Why do you talk about him ​as if he was an old man? (he isn't an old man) haha

과거를 이런 방식으로 쓸 때, ​was대신에 ​were도 사용할 수 있다:
Why do you talk about him ​as if he were (or ​was) an old man?
They treat me ​as if I were (or ​was) their own son. (I'm not their son)