phrasal verb / expression · neutral
look as if
/lʊk əz ɪf/LOOK·as·IF
give the impression that something is true or happening (used before a clause)
Examples
“From his face, he looks as if he hasn't slept for days.”
“The room looks as if it has been left untouched for years.”
“It looks as if we're going to get heavy rain later.”
Band 8 sentence
“Judging by the empty chairs and the lights switched off, it looked as if the seminar had already ended.”
Collocations
- look as if + clause
- looks as if
Word family
Common mistakes
It looks that he is tired.→It looks as if he is tired.
He look as if he doesn't care.→He looks as if he doesn't care.
It looks as if he will have left yesterday.→It looked as if he had left yesterday.
Say it for a higher band
5seem→6appear→7+look as if
Synonyms
seem
appear
Easily confused
seem
“It seems that unemployment has fallen over the last year.”
look like
“She looks like her mother.”
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