 This is Mark, I'm doing great, thanks for asking. She was never allowed to dress the way she wanted when she was young. He studies geography, just as his brother does. John treats her as though she was a princess. As if to warn me about the danger, my dog jumped on me and barked. In this lesson, we're going to look at classes of manner. So stay tuned. I've already talked about some classes. You can click here if you want to review them. In order to talk about the way something is done or about somebody's behavior, we need classes of manner. And some of these are much as, just as, like, as if, as, as though, the way, in a way, etc. So let's list the two examples that I gave you at the beginning. Sue was never allowed to dress the way she wanted when she was young. So the way is the class of manner. Now I was staring at her in a way she didn't expect. So we have here the two classes of manner that they describe the way something is done. So if we use these classes of manner to compare two classes, we can say, for example, he studies geography just as his brother does. Remember that we don't need to repeat the verb in this case because it's not needed, okay? So he studies geography just as his brother does. It's the same. So just as is used to compare the way something is done here. For example, she swims like her sister does. The same thing here. We don't need to repeat the main verb, swim. So we use the auxiliary of that sentence. So she swims like is comparing two people in this case and the way something is done. She swims like her sister does. Now it is used also if you want to explain that something is done in the way that it would be done if something were the case. And in this case, we need to remember to use the past tense of the class of manner in the class of manner. Let me give you the example that I gave you at the beginning again. John treated her as though she was or were are the subjunctive part of the sentence because we need, right after the class of manner, we need the past tense. In this case, it would be a subjunctive. Now the next example was the employer behaves as if he owned the whole town. The employer behaves as if he owned the whole town. Owned is the past tense of the verb to own and here would be considered a subjunctive. One last thing I want to say about classes of manner. We can use as if as though in non-finite classes, but the class must begin with a two infinitive or a participle, dancing, perplexed, etc. Let's look at my examples. As if to warn me about the danger, my dog jumped on me and barked. As if to warn me, see here we have the two infinitive. Now another example could be he was looking at me as though perplexed. In this case, we have a participle, a past participle, as though perplexed by my wording, by my language. He was looking at me as though perplexed by my wording. Now let's recap. In this lesson we looked at classes of manner as though as if, like, as, in a way, etc. They're used to talk about the way something is done or about somebody's behavior. They're used also to compare the way something is done with the way something else is done. They can also be used if you want to explain that something is done in the way that it would be done if something were the case. We can also use as if and as though in non-finite classes. So I hope you enjoyed the lesson. If you want to post your own example showing classes of manner, it would be great. Now if you want to share the video, you may do so. If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do so. Next week you'll get a new lesson. Have a great day and see you next week. Bye bye.