As Credit to: Quora Part of Speech: Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition Check the Punctuation page for information on comma usage for “as”. Adverb Used in comparisons to indicate the degree of something. The child sang as sweetly as a nightingale. Indicate examples …large carnivores, as the bear or lion. Subordinating Conjunction Indicates degree or extent You’re as sweet as sugar. Similarity in manner Do as I do. Confluence in time It happened as I was running home. Cause I went to bed early, as I was exhausted. Resulting action She was foolish enough as to think… Accordance The accommodations were nice as hotels go. Preposition Indicates function or role Acted as a guardian to… Similarity in manner The group acted as one. Grammar (a set of structural rules and the principles for any language that determines where words are placed in phrases or sentences as well as how the language is spoken) is an evolving list, and sometimes I run across an example that helps explain better. Nor are the self-editing pages complete. There’s always a new term someone, somewhere, uses to describe a part of grammar. There’s always a better way to explain it, so it makes quicker and/or better […]

Image by Nicolaes Maes [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons An Old Woman Praying, an oil-on-canvas, by Nicolaes Maes at the Worcester Art Museum. Changes. It’s a move I’ve been contemplating for some time and was finally forced into. A part of my second annus horribilis…sigh… Moving last year. Again this year. My old computer dying on its last miserable wheeze. My brand-new computer’s hard drive failing. My computer getting hacked. Yeah. So, changes. It’s not a bad thing. I probably would have continued to waffle along, so I am grateful for being “forced” into this change. It’s been worse than I had anticipated. And at least I’m doing it. That’s the good side. Another fun aspect is I get to do more research. I can hear y’all laughing out there. Stop. Go to the bathroom. Y’ back yet? Get on with it… So, changes. I’m blending my old KD Did It website and my free WordPress blog, KD Did It Takes on Books, into one website, KD Did It Edits, with a new host. I hadn’t realized how WordPress’ internal structuring would change how my old navigation and site structure functioned. Nor how WordPress’ search ability would affect the old […]