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.