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I always say, with your help, I've made progress in English.Today I read a sentence that use "as" to express the same meaning, as follows:
As the technology improves, smart clothes will get much smarter.
I'm wondering whether we can use both words interchangeable. I read the two sentences carefully . I guess we can put a sentence following "as". We only can put words following "with". Could you please tell if I'm right?
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You asked about the use of "with" and "as", and you gave the following example use of "as":
"As th technology improves, smart clothes will get much smarter."
Yes, you are correct. After "as" we can use a clause (a subject+finite verb+complement), whereas after "with" we can have a noun or noun pharse. " As" (in your example) is a conjunction meaning "while";CONJUNCTIONS, you will recall, are for joining clauses to the rest of the sentence. "With" is a preposition;PREPOSITIONS are for joining nouns to the rest of the sentence.
No. these two words normally cannot be used interchangeABLY. But in your example, we could use either to express a similar, as follows:
"AS the technology improves, smart clothes will get much smarter."
"WITH the IMPROVEMENT OF technology,smart clothes will get much smarter."
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