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EyeSeeYou Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

"So much as to"

0I have a hard time trying to figure out the exact meaning of that phrase. Here's the context:02br
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00"I saw [the warts-and-all 01b00METALLICA02b00 documentary 01b00'Some Kind of Monster'02b00], and it made me really nervous," 01b00Rubin02b00 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 01b00reinvent02b00 themselves 01b01font00so much as to02font02b00 make a defining album, like the purest of what 01b00METALLICA02b00 is. That's the aim, so we'll see what happens." 0-
  

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0Hello ICU02br 02br 00This is the structure:02br 02br 001. 02br 02br 00Have a good Sunday,02br 02br 00MrP0-

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0Hello ICU02br
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00This is the structure:02br
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001. I asked them 01u00not so much02u00 to do X, 01u00as02u00 to do Y.02br
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00Here it is visually:02br
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00Asking them to do X: ---------------------- 02br
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00Asking 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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Hello Eye,

Yes, that word order is quite common.

All the best,

MrP

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