 a test question
Here is a question from a nationwide exam in Turkey, KPDS. I am stuck between D and A. Could you clarify the point?
I was forced to admit that there was a drop in sales towards the end of the year ---- he had predicted.
A) such as
B) even so
C) in case
D) just as
E) so far as
is it possible to use "just as" instead of "such as" in the sentences below without significant change in meaning? Does that mean there are cases when these two are interchangeable?
- When he spoke to me this morning about his conversations with Herr von Ribbentrop, Colonel Beck assured me that they had been such as he had predicted to me ...
- A conflict, such as He had predicted, severed for a time all means of communication with those on whom He had come to place such implicit trust and from ... |