请问Their personal life was regularly discussed bypeople who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends中的as if they wereclose friends是陈述语气还是虚拟语气?
Their personal life was regularly discussed by people who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends.这是人教新课标高中英语课本上的句子，as if they were close friends 是陈述语气，不是虚拟语气。若是虚拟语气，则是：as if they had been close friends。?
