as being too bourgeois / the meaning of 'as'

[shorty1]

Hello folks.


Source: word smart

Bourgeois
A hip young city dweller might reject life in the suburbs as being too bourgeois.

I'll try to reword the above sentence.

A hip young city dweller might reject life in the suburbs because it(=life in the suburbs) is too bourgeois.

In this case, 'as' in the sentence means 'because'?

And if so, Is it(=as being) grammatically ok?


Thank you so much for your help.

 

[perpend]

Yes. Your rewording/paraphrasing makes sense, and keeps the meaning.

"as" doesn't really mean "because".

... suburbs as being too bourgeois ...
... suburbes because it's too bourgeois ...

But, I guess you sort of said that too. I'm pretty confident you are right, shorty!

 

[shorty1]

Yes. Your rewording/paraphrasing makes sense, and keeps the meaning.

"as" doesn't really mean "because".

... suburbs as being too bourgeois ...
... suburbes because it's too bourgeois ...

But, I guess you sort of said that too. I'm pretty confident you are right, shorty!

Thank you so much, perpend.

I get it.

Sorry to bother you but could you check one more thing?


http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/as
as(preposition)
2 — used to indicate the condition, role, job, etc., of someone or something ▪ Then she spoke as a child [=she was a child when she spoke then], but now she is speaking as an adult. ▪ He has a job as an editor. ▪ The policeman disguised himself as a beggar. ▪ Some people were surprised by his election as Governor. ▪ The critics praised his performance as Othello. ▪ I like her both as a poet and as a novelist. ▪ As a pacifist, I'm against all wars. ▪ Everyone rose as one. [=everyone rose together]

The 'as' in the original sentence happens to apply to the above definition?

 

[velisarius]

"Reject life in the suburbs as being too bourgeois" I would paraphrase this as: "reject life in the suburbs on the grounds that it is too bourgeois."

 

[perpend]

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/as
as(preposition)
2 — used to indicate the condition, role, job, etc., of someone or something ▪ Then she spoke as a child [=she was a child when she spoke then], but now she is speaking as an adult. ▪ He has a job as an editor. ▪ The policeman disguised himself as a beggar. ▪ Some people were surprised by his election as Governor. ▪ The critics praised his performance as Othello. ▪ I like her both as a poet and as a novelist. ▪ As a pacifist, I'm against all wars. ▪ Everyone rose as one. [=everyone rose together]

The 'as' in the original sentence happens to apply to the above definition?

No, that meaning of "as" does not happen to apply to your original sentence, for me.

I agree with velisarius' interpretation.

 

[shorty1]

Thank you so much for your time and answering the question, velisarius and perpend.


Many critics have objected to the proposal on the grounds that [=because] it would be too costly.

As I inferred it at first, it must mean 'reason'.

I get it.

I'll take it that in this case 'As being' is grammatically incorrect.

 

[perpend]

A hip young city dweller might reject life in the suburbs as being too bourgeois.

I'll try to reword the above sentence.

A hip young city dweller might reject life in the suburbs because it(=life in the suburbs) is too bourgeois.

"as being" is fine. I think we're on different pages as to how your construction is grammatically correct.

 

[shorty1]

"as being" is fine. I think we're on different pages as to how your construction is grammatically correct.

I thought 'as' couldn't be followed by being(gerund) when 'as' was used as a conjunction.

I must have taken it wrong way.

I get it.