Nat093
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Hello. I've learnt that:
"when the main clause is in the past tense, we do not use a past perfect after as if to show that a comparison is unreal. Instead we use a simple past in both clauses.
e.g. She looked as if she knew everything, but she didn’t."
And my question is: if I wanted to emphasise that the comparison was real (I was sure that she knew everything), which tense should I use after “as if”?
"when the main clause is in the past tense, we do not use a past perfect after as if to show that a comparison is unreal. Instead we use a simple past in both clauses.
e.g. She looked as if she knew everything, but she didn’t."
And my question is: if I wanted to emphasise that the comparison was real (I was sure that she knew everything), which tense should I use after “as if”?