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#2 (permalink) Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:37 am Use Such and So |
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. It is a syntactic difference, as well as a difference in meaning, PP (but the difference is slight and occasional, and not as you have suggested). Here is how they construct:
Such a thing = that kind of thing (such + a/an + noun) Such things = those kinds of things (such + noun) Such stuff (such + noun; the uncountable equivalent of such things) Such a big thing = of that size (such + a/an + adj + noun) Such big things (such + adj + noun)
So many things = such a (great) number of things (so + adverb) So much stuff (so + adv; the uncountable equivalent of so many things) So beautiful = of that amount of beauty (so + adj; no noun) So beautiful a day = a day of that amount of beauty (so + adj + a/an + noun)
Of your sentences, only the second is constructed correctly. . _________________ Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's |
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#3 (permalink) Thu Oct 19, 2006 15:10 pm Use Such and So |
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| Thanks! I find your answers very informative. |
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Planetypus I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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#4 (permalink) Wed Jul 08, 2009 16:16 pm Use Such and So |
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Hello, Could any one give me an example of using "such that", please.
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Svitlana_Morokhovych I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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#5 (permalink) Wed Jul 08, 2009 17:04 pm Use Such and So |
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And as long as our culture is such that we have certain preconceived notions about each other that aren't all positive, well, this is what we're going to have. Source information: Date 2008 (080415) Title Teaching Kids to Cope with Cops Source Tell Me More 9:00-10:00 AM and though the pain of my phantom arm was such that I wished to moan or cry out, Source information: .Date 2008 Publication information . Hoboken: Mar 2008 . Vol. 114, Iss. 3; pg. 43, 53 pgs Title The Overseer Source Fantasy & Science Fiction " The nature of biological weapons is such that it is very difficult to figure out where something came from, " Source information: .Date 2008 (Aug 18, 2008) Publication information . Vol. 172, Iss. 7; pg. 30 Title The Anthrax Files. Author Amanda Ripley Source [Time; New York(PMID: 28294)] http://www.americancorpus.org/ _________________ con·text - The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. |
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Milanya I'm here quite often ;-)
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#6 (permalink) Wed Jul 08, 2009 20:33 pm Use Such and So |
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The weather was such that we couldn't go. _________________ Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
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Skrej I'm here quite often ;-)

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