Verbs of the senses: look, sound, feel, etc.

Verbs of the senses: look, sound, feel, etc.

Exercise 1

Choose the most suitable forms of the following verbs of the senses for each gap below.

1She looked as thoughlooked likelooked thrilled to be back home.

2Your biceps feel asfeel as iffeel you've been working out.

3We heard something that soundedsounded likesounded as if a rat.

4This cloud looks likelooks as iflooks an elephant.

5You sound likesoundsound as if very mature for your age.

6The bread tasted as iftastedtasted as like it had just been baked.

7The dream felt as thoughfelt likefelt so real that when I woke up I couldn't even talk.

8This chocolate tastes as iftastes liketastes a bit sweeter than the other one.

9His voice sounded assounded as ifsounded he needed help.

10You looklook as thoughlook like you know the answer.

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Verbs of the senses

We can use the verbs look, smell, taste, sound and feel before adjectives, nouns, and clauses (subject + verb)

Look, smell, taste, sound, feel + adjective

We can use feel, smell, taste, sound, and feel + adjective to talk about how something feels, tastes, etc.

• When you use that cream, your skin feels really smooth.
• When he talked to us sounded nervous.

Look, smell, taste, sound, feel + like + noun

We can also use feel, smell, taste, sound, and feel + like before a noun.

• You sound like your mother. 
• This tastes like chicken.

Look, smell, taste, sound, feel + as if/as though + clause

We use feel, smell, taste, sound, and feel + as if/as though + clause (subject + verb).

• You sound as if you had a long party last night.
• You look as though you’ve just seen a ghost.

Note that in informal English we often also use feel, smell, taste, sound, and feel + like + clause.

• You sound like you had a long party last night.
• You look like you’ve just seen a ghost.

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