I have a question about the sentence "liked to do things in such a way as would make them seem magical and occult" from the novel "Waterland" that was written by Graham Swift. Link here.
Below is the sentence in which I have a question.
And my father, who was a superstitious man, liked to do things in such a way as would make them seem magical and occult.
I know from the Oxford Dictionaries that "such … as …" above means
- Of the type about to be mentioned
But I don't know which meaning of the word "of" is used in this explanation. I am not very clear about "of the type" in the explanation.
Is the word "as" a conjunction in the sentence "in such a way as would make them seem magical and occult"?
Which meaning of the word "as" is used in the sentence "in such a way as would make them seem magical and occult"?
Best Answer
He liked to do things in such a way as would make them seem magical.
You can replace "in such a way as" in the above sentence with:
He liked to do things in a way that would make them seem magical.
"in such a way as" would mean: in this particular way that...