請教各位 As if 放在句首是否可行?
這幾天寫作文寫了一個結構跟下面這段很像的句子
They are interested in me as if I were a zoo animal.
但礙於上下句的邏輯、又想要變化句型,我就寫成
As if I were a zoo animal, they are interested in me.
可是留英的作文老師跟我說文法有問題,他就改成
It was as if I were a zoo animal. They are interested in me.
(抱歉我搞錯了,他說的文法問題是我原本主句另一個動詞的問題,我另外發文)
(但是想討論 As if 能不能放句首我覺得還是可以繼續討論)
我查了 Cambridge & Oxford 字典和 Cambridge 文法書都沒有解釋
網路上很多 "It was as if" 開頭的句子,但不知道是不是標準用法
可能因為 "As if" 搜尋邏輯的關係,很難找到它在句首,無法確定是否絕對不可以
Purdue Online Writing Lab 則建議可以這樣用
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/573/05/