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Son James Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

A so beautiful girl???

Sometimes I speak like this. "She is so beautiful girl".
Today suddenly I doubt that there was not an article there. And I also think that I never seen things like " a so beautiful girl". Then,

1) She is a very beautiful girl
2) She is so beautiful.

In case that "so" modifies an adjective like "beautiful", "So" and an article (I mean, a noun) can't together exist, isn't it?

Thank you in advance for your teaching.
  

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Hi, Neither 'She is a so beautiful girl' nor 'She is so beautiful girl' are correct. What you need to do is replace 'so' with 'such' and place a indefinite article 'a' after it. You will get: She is such a beautiful girl.

— Dokterjokkebrok

  • Hi, Neither 'She is a so beautiful girl' nor 'She is so beautiful girl' are correct.
  • What you need to do is replace 'so' with 'such' and place a indefinite article 'a' after it.
  • You will get: She is such a beautiful girl.
  • Extra examples: You are so smart.
  • --> You are such a smart boy.
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Hi,

Neither 'She is a so beautiful girl' nor 'She is so beautiful girl' are correct.

What you need to do is replace 'so' with 'such' and place a indefinite article 'a' after it. You will get:
  • She is such a beautiful girl.
Extra examples:
  • You are so smart. --> You are such a smart boy.
  • Mike is so brave. --> He i
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Thank you for your teaching,DJBEmotion: embarrassed
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DJB has explained to you the normal way to say this.

But note that you can say 'She was so beautiful a girl,'
This construction is uncommon and very poetical
eg She was so beautiful a girl that men wept when they saw her!
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Thanks to your words, I could figure out the difference between "She is so beautiful" and "She is a very beautiful girl". Thank you for your teaching,Clive
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The sentence, "She is so beautiful girl.", is flagrantly ungrammatical. I've noticed many non-native speakers making this kind of error with the word "so." Your sentences 1. and 2. are grammatically okay, but 2. would typically not be used by a native speaker. Many non-native speakers tend to overuse the word "so," and incorrectly at that, but this word is used almost exclusively in certain set
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What I would suggest is that you eliminate the word "so" from your vocabulary. It won't be missed.
Surely you are overstating your case?
Learners need to say
eg She was so beautiful that Tom married her.
eg It rained so I got wet.
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Thank you for your advice.Emotion: embarrassed
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Thank you for your teaching,CliveEmotion: embarrassed
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