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Anon f8r Posted 18 years ago
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Can "so" be used as an adjective?
0 "He is very honest, maybe too much so." Is "so" an adjective here? According to the dictionary, "so" can be an adverb or a conjunction. 02 br
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00 "The manager was ill so that I went in her place." Do I have to add a comma after "ill"? Is "so that" here a conjunction? 0-
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00 "The manager was ill so that I went in her place." Do I have to add a comma after "ill"? Is "so that" here a conjunction? 0-
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0 Wow. I think it's idiomatic, and an adverb. " 0-
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0 Wow. I think it's idiomatic, and an adverb. "How honest is he?" "He's so honest that he etc." In this case it's an adverb modifying the predicate adjective "honest." 02 br
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00 In your sentence, you could substitute "thus" or "that way" or "in this manner" or "in the way previously described" for "so." 0-
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00 In your sentence, you could substitute "thus" or "that way" or "in this manner" or "in the way previously described" for "so." 0-
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0 (not sure how this happened - I got timed out and I wasn't even editing) 02 br
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00 In the "manager" sentence, I believe the comma would be optional. "So" is indeed a conjunction. "That" is nonfunctional. I'm not sure what you'd call it. 02 br
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00 In the "honest" sentence, the "so" acts almost like a token, or pro-adverb for the description which pr
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00 In the "manager" sentence, I believe the comma would be optional. "So" is indeed a conjunction. "That" is nonfunctional. I'm not sure what you'd call it. 02 br
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00 In the "honest" sentence, the "so" acts almost like a token, or pro-adverb for the description which pr
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