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.

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

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

3 We heard something that sounded as ifsoundedsounded like a rat.

4 This cloud lookslooks likelooks as if an elephant.

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

6 The bread tasted as iftasted as liketasted it had just been baked.

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

8 This chocolate tastestastes as iftastes like a bit sweeter than the other one.

9 His voice sounded as ifsoundedsounded as he needed help.

10 You looklook as thoughlook as 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, he 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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