Definition: 'As'

Statistics

• Length: 2 characters
• Syllables: 1

Other Comments

• Examiners' Favourite!!
• AS on its own isn't used with the meaning 'for example'
• In gap-filling exercises, if you're looking for one word meaning 'for example' use LIKE

Grammatical Information

• Conjunction
• A conjunction joins words or, more frequently, phrases and clauses

Lexical Information

• SUCH AS means 'for example'
• One of the 220 words in the Dolch high frequency list
• One of the 850 words in Basic English
• In the top 2,000 words in the Brown Corpus
• Common word- this is one of the thousand words most frequently used in English.
• Idiom used in GMAT
• A list of about 3,000 words defined as easy for the Dale-Chall Readability Formula

Usage Notes

• SINCE and AS can be used as synonyms of BECAUSE
• We use AS IF rather than LIKE before a verb.
• We use the present or past tense after AS SOON AS, not WILL or SHALL

Spelling Notes

• It's not an imprisonable offence to use LIKE with a verb, although many would prefer AS IF