as | at the same time | you can use ‘as’ two things happen at the same time
1.
We all waved goodbye to Liz as she drove away.
We waved goodbye at the time when she was driving away.
2.
I watched her as she opened the letter. I
watched her at the time when she was opening the letter. It means when she was
opening the letter, I was watching her to do it.
3.
As I walked along the street, I looked in the
shop windows. It means that I was window-shopping when I walked along the
street.
4.
Can you turn off the light as you go out,
please?
5.
Or you can say that something happened as you
were doing something else, or as you were in the middle of doing something
else.
6.
Kate slipped as she was getting off the bus.
Notice, we say, as she was getting off the bus, meaning as she was in the
middle of getting off the bus.
7.
We met Paul as we were leaving the hotel. We
see, we use two different tenses, the conditional part uses the past
continuous, and the principal clause uses past simple.
8.
We can also use, just as, to mean the same thing
– just as means at the same time as, or exactly at that moment.
9.
Just as we sat down, the phone rang. It means
that the phone rang as we were in the middle of sitting down.
10.
I had to leave just as the conversation was
getting interesting. Notice, the two tenses, the principal clause uses the past
simple while the conditional part uses past progressive tense.
11.
We also use ‘as’ when two things happen together
(?) in a longer period of time. (for)?
12.
As the day went on, the weather got worse. Here,
as is used for a progressive period of time, but note that the tense is still
past simple for both the clauses.
13.
I began to enjoy the job more as I
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