The phrase "as to pretend" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It can be used when discussing the act of pretending in a context where you are explaining the reason or purpose behind the action.
Example: "He spoke in a serious tone as to pretend that he was not joking."
Alternatives: "in order to pretend" or "so as to pretend."
"There are plenty of politicians who have mistresses and children they hide so as to pretend to be monogamous", says Mr Zuma.
If the movie peters out in a sad, ambivalent afterword, at least it is not so foolish as to pretend that playing Robin Hood can go on forever.
Even the Camba, for all their excesses, would never have been so foolish as to pretend that you could have a conversation about drinking and talk only about the can.
Having missed by a mile its target for a primary surplus (before interest payments) of 1.6% of GDP and thus violated the Fiscal Responsibility Law, the government was this week cynically persuading Congress to change the rules so as to pretend that it had met it.
Even the Camba, for all their excesses, would never have been so foolish as to pretend that you could have a conversation about drinking and talk only about the can. Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer for the The New Yorker since 1996.
Madden, who has an apartment at the Dakota and two sons who went to Ivy League colleges, reads books, too, but has the good sense to keep any evidence off the air, going so far as to pretend during last year's Super Bowl broadcast that he didn't know how to use the word "inordinate".
Meanwhile, people try as hard as possible to pretend that everything is fine.
It's just as easy to pretend I'm a bad guy as it is to pretend I'm a good guy".
However universities are not as saintly as they like to pretend: grade inflation is also rife in higher education.
And, of course, they have a few variations, but not as many as they like to pretend to opponents.
