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Tue 16 Jan, 2018 07:30 am
1. He talks as though he knows a lot.
2. He talks as thought he knew a lot.
3. He walks as though he is drunk.
4. He walks as though he was drunk.
(a) Is there a difference in meaning between sentences 1 and 2?
(b) Similarly, is there a difference in meaning between sentences 3 and 4?
Thanks.
2 and 4 inappropriately mix tenses. I would only expect to see 1 and 3 used by native speakers.
That's not to say you will never see these clause structures:
He talks as though he knew about her past but never warned us.
He walks as though he was drunk and then got beat up.
@PUNKEY,
Thanks, Punkey.
1. In #1, does he know about her past?
2. In #2, was he drunk or not?
@PUNKEY,
PUNKEY wrote:He walks as though he was drunk and then got beat up.
You cannot, realistically, deduce all that from the way someone walks.
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