USE AND MEANING OF AS

Read the different examples below and try to find an explanation for their use
and function.
nr 1 is an example:

1. As its raining again, well have to stay in. As he had not paid his bill, his electricity
was cut off.
Meaning and use: Conjunction to refer to reason, (synonyms: since, because, for)
Your example: As it is getting late, I think we should go home.

2. As we were sitting down to dinner, the phone rang. We got to the checkin desk (just) as they were about to close.
Meaning and use:
Your example:

3. He works as a bank clerk. A crocodile starts life as an egg. As your brother, I must
warn you to be careful.
Meaning and use:
Your example:

4.

Simon isn't as tall as his brother. I don't play football as much as I used to.
I can't run as fast as you.
Meaning and use:
Your example:

AS or LIKE?????
5. It looks as if is going to rain. It sounds as if Johns going to change his job.
Meaning and use:
Can we also use like?
Your example:
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6. Nobody knows her as I do.

We often drink tea with the meal, as they do in China. In

1939, as in 1919, everybody seemed to want war.

I invested the money as you suggested. Leave everything just as you found it.

Meaning and use:

Can we also use like?
Your example:

7. My sister looks like me. He ran like the wind. Like his parents, he is a vegetarian.
Meaning and use:
Can we also use like?
Your example:

FIXED EXPRESSIONS (some, but not all.)

Read the following examples carefully and try to understand use and meaning
of the underlined expression:

1. As you know, next Tuesdays meeting has been cancelled. Im sending you the bill for
the repairs, as agreed. As is well known, more people get colds in wet weather. (Not:
as it is well known. This happens with passive expressions like as was agreed)

2. Judith was late, as usual.

3. You can take my car as long as you drive carefully. Id move to another country as
long as I had a better job there.

4. Shes clever as well as nice. I have to feed the animals as well as look after the
children.
As well as birds, some mammals can fly too. Smoking is dangerous, as well as making
you smell bad.
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5. It looks as if it's going to rain. Jack smiled as though he was enjoying a private joke.
The house was in such a mess it looked as though a bomb had dropped on it.

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Conjunction to refer to reason, also since, because, for

Conjunction. Simultaneous actions or situations, also when or while
Preposition to express function or role (not like)
used for comparing one person, thing, or situation with another
To say what a situation seems like. You can also use like
And 7: Similarity, something is or is done in the same way. Conjunction followed by a
clause or a prepositional phrase. We use like in informal contexts or like followed
by a noun/pronoun

FIXED EXPRESSIONS: 3- To state conditions 4- not only but also. 5in such a way that something seems to be true