In this sentence what is the function of "as"? Could you put it into other words.
His paintings of Bonneville reflect Turner's experience of the Alps as given structure by the example of Poussin.

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In this sentence what is the function of "as"? Could you put it into other words.
His paintings of Bonneville reflect Turner's experience of the Alps as given structure by the example of Poussin.

Thanks a lot.

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"Turner's experience of the Alps" = "the given structure"
In this context, the word "as" functions as an adverb and it identifies the first syntagm with the second.

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I think "as" in this sentence means "because".

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