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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Is it an inversion?

Can this phrase "so be it" stand alone as a sentence?

Is "so be it" equal to " "let it be so"?
  

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Anonymous Can this phrase "so be it" stand alone as a sentence? Yes. Anonymous Is "so be it" equal to " "let it be so"?

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  • Anonymous Can this phrase "so be it" stand alone as a sentence?
  • Yes.
  • Anonymous Is "so be it" equal to " "let it be so"?
  • No.
  • But it is hard to explain the difference.
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AnonymousCan this phrase "so be it" stand alone as a sentence?
Yes.
AnonymousIs "so be it" equal to " "let it be so"?
No. But it is hard to explain the difference. It is something like this:

So be it. That's the way it is.

Let it be so. Make it that way.
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Hmm.

I would have said that "So be it" also means "Make it that way". Not so?

CJ
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CalifJimHmm.

I would have said that "So be it" also means "Make it that way". Not so?

CJ
Hi CJ:
Here are some quotes from American Corpus:

... he says if tough love is the only way to make it happen then so be it.

If it was unavoidable for them to die, then so be it. They would die.

Who knows? B
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