There are many uses for as if in English. What is the use of comparison, conjunction and exclamation and how can it be used in a sentence?

What is your doubt that you are about past tense or present tense with as if? The past tense is used when you use as if for comparing things/people where comparison is not true.

I am amazed at his behaviour. He is like the king of the world. Is he going to be murdered?

In your example, it’s used as conjunction where it’ll mean like as though or both. The past tense is not required.

I don’t just want to help him. Is it that I have no money?

Where can I find my answer?? How is the use of an English word like “English”, described

in the article?

There are many uses for as if in English. What is the use of comparison, conjunction and exclamation and how can it be used in a sentence?

What is your doubt that you are about past tense or present tense with as if? The past tense is used when you use as if for comparing things/people where comparison is not true.

I am amazed at his behaviour. He is like the king of the world. Is he going to be murdered?

In your example, it’s used as conjunction where it’ll mean like as though or both. The past tense is not required.

I don’t just want to help him. Is it that I have no money?

Where can I find my answer?? How is the use of an English word like “English”, described

in the article?

Google Books claims 17,300 instances of it’s not as if I had and 11,700 of it’s not as if I have, which I think suggests that the short answer for OP is “both tenses are fairly common” in such constructions. Read why?

I have money and today I am a rich man. Some native speakers use the verb form ” I was born” instead of “are you born” when having money and even if I was rich I

still wouldn’t help In practice many native speakers today

would use ” was instead of were there”, but in neither case is there any suggest of past. Also note this example……my throat

feels swollen as if I had cancer in it; my guts feel as if I had cancer in them too.

Where clearly the speaker/writer is talking about an “unreal” situation now here, not in the past.

In practice, most native speakers probably would use present tense in OP’s specific example, if only to reflect the preceding I don’t want to help. Is it wrong to use the subjunctive (?)? (i.e in this case it looks just like the past “tense” anyway.

There are many uses for as if in English. What is the use of comparison, conjunction and exclamation and how can it be used in a sentence?

What is your doubt that you are about past tense or present tense with as if? The past tense is used when you use as if for comparing things/people where comparison is not true.

I am amazed at his behaviour. He is like the king of the world. Is he going to be murdered?

In your example, it’s used as conjunction where it’ll mean like as though or both. The past tense is not required.

I don’t just want to help him. Is it that I have no money?

Where can I find my answer?? How is the use of an English word like “English”, described

in the article?

There are many uses for as if in English. What is the use of comparison, conjunction and exclamation and how can it be used in a sentence?

What is your doubt that you are about past tense or present tense with as if? The past tense is used when you use as if for comparing things/people where comparison is not true.

I am amazed at his behaviour. He is like the king of the world. Is he going to be murdered?

In your example, it’s used as conjunction where it’ll mean like as though or both. The past tense is not required.

I don’t just want to help him. Is it that I have no money?

Where can I find my answer?? How is the use of an English word like “English”, described

in the article?

Google Books claims 17,300 instances of it’s not as if I had and 11,700 of it’s not as if I have, which I think suggests that the short answer for OP is “both tenses are fairly common” in such constructions. Read why?

I have money and today I am a rich man. Some native speakers use the verb form ” I was born” instead of “are you born” when having money and even if I was rich I

still wouldn’t help In practice many native speakers today

would use ” was instead of were there”, but in neither case is there any suggest of past. Also note this example……my throat

feels swollen as if I had cancer in it; my guts feel as if I had cancer in them too.

Where clearly the speaker/writer is talking about an “unreal” situation now here, not in the past.

In practice, most native speakers probably would use present tense in OP’s specific example, if only to reflect the preceding I don’t want to help. Is it wrong to use the subjunctive (?)? (i.e in this case it looks just like the past “tense” anyway.

Google Books claims 17,300 instances of it’s not as if I had and 11,700 of it’s not as if I have, which I think suggests that the short answer for OP is “both tenses are fairly common” in such constructions. Read why?

I have money and today I am a rich man. Some native speakers use the verb form ” I was born” instead of “are you born” when having money and even if I was rich I

still wouldn’t help In practice many native speakers today

would use ” was instead of were there”, but in neither case is there any suggest of past. Also note this example……my throat

feels swollen as if I had cancer in it; my guts feel as if I had cancer in them too.

Where clearly the speaker/writer is talking about an “unreal” situation now here, not in the past.

In practice, most native speakers probably would use present tense in OP’s specific example, if only to reflect the preceding I don’t want to help. Is it wrong to use the subjunctive (?)? (i.e in this case it looks just like the past “tense” anyway.

There are many uses for as if in English. What is the use of comparison, conjunction and exclamation and how can it be used in a sentence?

What is your doubt that you are about past tense or present tense with as if? The past tense is used when you use as if for comparing things/people where comparison is not true.

I am amazed at his behaviour. He is like the king of the world. Is he going to be murdered?

In your example, it’s used as conjunction where it’ll mean like as though or both. The past tense is not required.

I don’t just want to help him. Is it that I have no money?

Where can I find my answer?? How is the use of an English word like “English”, described

in the article?

There are many uses for as if in English. What is the use of comparison, conjunction and exclamation and how can it be used in a sentence?

What is your doubt that you are about past tense or present tense with as if? The past tense is used when you use as if for comparing things/people where comparison is not true.

I am amazed at his behaviour. He is like the king of the world. Is he going to be murdered?

In your example, it’s used as conjunction where it’ll mean like as though or both. The past tense is not required.

I don’t just want to help him. Is it that I have no money?

Where can I find my answer?? How is the use of an English word like “English”, described

in the article?

Google Books claims 17,300 instances of it’s not as if I had and 11,700 of it’s not as if I have, which I think suggests that the short answer for OP is “both tenses are fairly common” in such constructions. Read why?

I have money and today I am a rich man. Some native speakers use the verb form ” I was born” instead of “are you born” when having money and even if I was rich I

still wouldn’t help In practice many native speakers today

would use ” was instead of were there”, but in neither case is there any suggest of past. Also note this example……my throat

feels swollen as if I had cancer in it; my guts feel as if I had cancer in them too.

Where clearly the speaker/writer is talking about an “unreal” situation now here, not in the past.

In practice, most native speakers probably would use present tense in OP’s specific example, if only to reflect the preceding I don’t want to help. Is it wrong to use the subjunctive (?)? (i.e in this case it looks just like the past “tense” anyway.