请教各位 As if 放在句首是否可行?
这几天写作文写了一个结构跟下面这段很像的句子
They are interested in me as if I were a zoo animal.
但碍于上下句的逻辑、又想要变化句型,我就写成
As if I were a zoo animal, they are interested in me.
可是留英的作文老师跟我说文法有问题,他就改成
It was as if I were a zoo animal. They are interested in me.
(抱歉我搞错了,他说的文法问题是我原本主句另一个动词的问题,我另外发文)
(但是想讨论 As if 能不能放句首我觉得还是可以继续讨论)
我查了 Cambridge & Oxford 字典和 Cambridge 文法书都没有解释
网络上很多 "It was as if" 开头的句子,但不知道是不是标准用法
可能因为 "As if" 搜寻逻辑的关系,很难找到它在句首,无法确定是否绝对不可以
Purdue Online Writing Lab 则建议可以这样用
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/573/05/