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Fire1 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Is it wrong to say "so verb that" or "so f*cking verb that" ?

1. × My smartphone so sucks that it takes about a minute to load a webpage

2. ? My smartphone sucks so much that it takes about a minute to load a webpage.

3. × The audio so f*cking sucks that it can't even pronounce/play a word correctly.

4. ? The audio sucks so f*cking bad that it can't even pronounce/play a word correctly.


A native English speaker once told me that sentence 1 and 2 are wrong and should be rewritten as 2 and 4, but I actually have seen "so" and "so ***" can be used to modify "verbs" for emphasis, as in 1 and 3.


Are 1 and 3 really wrong even in colloquial English?

I seem to have heard that "so verb" and "so *** verb" is often used among young people.

  

Top answer

People that talk this way don't really care about correct grammar. They just say whatever they want to. The audio can't even pronounce a word correctly.

— Clive

  • People that talk this way don't really care about correct grammar.
  • They just say whatever they want to.
  • The audio can't even pronounce a word correctly.
  • Only people pronounce.
  • Say eg The audio is so bad that I can't hear the words correctly.
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People that talk this way don't really care about correct grammar. They just say whatever they want to. The audio can't even pronounce a word correctly. Only people pronounce. Say eg The audio is so bad that I can't hear the words correctly.
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fire1Is it wrong to say "so {verb} that"

You may see it on occasion, but it's not at all common.
(The chemical so irritates mosquitoes that they exit fast.— from an article on DDT)

Use "{verb} so much that" instead.

CJ

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