What's the meaning of "as" in the sentence below?
Such inns as there were were generally dirty and flea - ridden ;
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The sentence doesn't sound right. I would look to correct the sentence first. Then we can look at the meaning of as. I don't understand what you are trying to say in the sentence.
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Sounds better to say: Inns, such as they were, were generally dirty and flea-ridden .
(don't put spaces in hyphenated words)
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The meaning of the sentence would be " Inns ( if you could call them inns) were generally dirty and flea-ridden. " They were so horrible that they shouldn't have been called inns.
I hope that helps?
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