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EyeSeeYou Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
"So much as to"
0 I have a hard time trying to figure out the exact meaning of that phrase. Here's the context: 02 br
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00 "I saw [the warts-and-all 01 b 00 METALLICA 02 b 00 documentary 01 b 00 'Some Kind of Monster' 02 b 00 ], and it made me really nervous," 01 b 00 Rubin 02 b 00 said. "Then we started working, and it's the opposite direction of that. They're really productive, really communicative — it seems like they really like being in the room together. It's a great process. They say they're more excited than they have been in a long time about making music. We're going to start recording in March. I asked them not to 01 b 00 reinvent 02 b 00 themselves 01 b 01 font 00 so much as to 02 font 02 b 00 make a defining album, like the purest of what 01 b 00 METALLICA 02 b 00 is. That's the aim, so we'll see what happens." 0-
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00 "I saw [the warts-and-all 01 b 00 METALLICA 02 b 00 documentary 01 b 00 'Some Kind of Monster' 02 b 00 ], and it made me really nervous," 01 b 00 Rubin 02 b 00 said. "Then we started working, and it's the opposite direction of that. They're really productive, really communicative — it seems like they really like being in the room together. It's a great process. They say they're more excited than they have been in a long time about making music. We're going to start recording in March. I asked them not to 01 b 00 reinvent 02 b 00 themselves 01 b 01 font 00 so much as to 02 font 02 b 00 make a defining album, like the purest of what 01 b 00 METALLICA 02 b 00 is. That's the aim, so we'll see what happens." 0-
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0 Hello ICU 02 br 02 br 00 This is the structure: 02 br 02 br 00 1. 02 br 02 br 00 Have a good Sunday, 02 br 02 br 00 MrP 0-
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0 Hello ICU 02 br
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00 This is the structure: 02 br
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00 1. I asked them 01 u 00 not so much 02 u 00 to do X, 01 u 00 as 02 u 00 to do Y. 02 br
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00 Here it is visually: 02 br
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00 Asking them to do X: ---------------------- 02 br
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00 Asking them to do Y: -------
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00 This is the structure: 02 br
02 br
00 1. I asked them 01 u 00 not so much 02 u 00 to do X, 01 u 00 as 02 u 00 to do Y. 02 br
02 br
00 Here it is visually: 02 br
02 br
00 Asking them to do X: ---------------------- 02 br
02 br
00 Asking them to do Y: -------
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MrPedantic
Hello ICU
This is the structure:
1. I asked them not so much to do X, as to do Y.
Here it is visually:
Asking them to do X: ----------------------
Asking them to do Y: ------------------------------------------
X is not so much as Y: therefore I asked them to do Y, more than X.
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