"pretend as" is not a grammatically correct phrase.
The correct phrase would be "pretend to be." For example: "He likes to pretend to be a superhero."
"The job is to pretend as convincingly as you can," he said.
Kanzi, the famous bonobo, liked to pretend as well.
But I also think I'd be a better mom if I stopped pretending, and making friends on Facebook feel like they have to pretend as well".
Oh, and pretend as if the elements do not matter.
"Pretend as if you're running on eggshells," Jacobson says.
I didn't have to pretend, as I had in childhood, that the falling bricks didn't hurt.
Sport can no longer pretend, as it used to, that it inhabits its own planet.
She doesn't say it, and I pretend as if I don't know it.
No one even tried to pretend, as we are supposed to, that no matter what, terrorists cannot disrupt our government.
We can't continue to pretend as if nothing is happening," said Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French foreign minister.
Mr. Bush can no longer pretend, as he did during the 2000 campaign, that there is enough money for everything.
