Thursday, May 4, 2017

prepositions - usage of "as + adjective"


Consider:



All cases involving children are treated as urgent.


The man was described as tall and dark, and aged about 20.



How "as" can collocate with adjectives here?


If I omitted "as" or replaced "as" with "to be", would these two examples still be correct and acceptable?




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