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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

It/that/so

He felt the need to do it/that/so.

Is "so" a pronoun in the way as "it" and "that" are in the sentence above?

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I think it is.

  

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" is okay. This means he felt the need to do it in that way. "So" is an adverb here ("so" can't be a pronoun).

— Anonymous

  • " is okay.
  • This means he felt the need to do it in that way.
  • "So" is an adverb here ("so" can't be a pronoun).
  • " is ungrammatical.
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"He felt the need to do it so." is okay. This means he felt the need to do it in that way. "So" is an adverb here ("so" can't be a pronoun).


"He felt the need to do that so." is ungrammatical.

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tkacka15He felt the need to do it/that/so.
Is "so" a pronoun in the way as "it" and "that" are in the sentence above?_______________
I think it is.

I believe you are arguing that "do that" and "do it" are analogous to "do so", and that "so" is therefore a pronoun, not asking about "do it so" and "do that so" as the previous replies seem to assume. A

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