Choose the option which best replaces the underlined phrase in more conventional English:
"He has not been able to make any significant impact, however, he behaves as if he is the supreme leader."
Choose the option which best replaces the underlined phrase in more conventional English:
"He has not been able to make any significant impact, however, he behaves as if he is the supreme leader."
Solution
✅ Correct Option: 2
As if he were is the conventional formal form for an unreal or contrary-to-fact comparison after as if.
As he is: states or implies actuality rather than an unreal comparison.
As if he was: common in informal speech, but the keyed formal construction uses the subjunctive were.
As if: is incomplete because the comparison still needs a clause after it.