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As a foreigner learning English, I find it very difficult to understand the Phrase"as it were" in different context. Could someone do me a favor?

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[+1] - ossobuco - 10/25/2009good question, and that phrase is not used much now. I await a good answer with you. I suppose I think of it as a breather phrase, which people use to gain time to figure out what they are going...
[+1] - sullyfish6 - 10/25/2009short version of: as if it were so

@Adverb,

good question, and that phrase is not used much now. I await a good answer with you. I suppose I think of it as a breather phrase, which people use to gain time to figure out what they are going to say next.

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short version of: as if it were so

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