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Gerry Meng Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Sentence Explaining

Hi guys

here is the sentence, Would someone please help me explain it.

"She did not read from her novel as she traveled across the country so much as she acted it out, playing each character with such skill that she turned her readings into performances. "

I have problem in understanding the word "as, so much as, and the following 'that'" It makes me unable to understand the sentence..

Is it a as...as style? or is there a so..... that style?

Thx

Gerry
  

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I think the first "as" is equivalent to "when": as she traveled across the country = when she traveled across the country. So, it doesn't seem to be part of an "as ... " construction.

— Vchekh

  • I think the first "as" is equivalent to "when": as she traveled across the country = when she traveled across the country.
  • So, it doesn't seem to be part of an "as ...
  • " construction.
  • e.
  • she played her characters instead of merely reading aloud their lines.
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I think the first "as" is equivalent to "when": as she traveled across the country = when she traveled across the country. So, it doesn't seem to be part of an "as ... as ..." construction.

"She did not read from her novel <...> so much as she acted it out" probably means that she acted out her novel rather than just read it, i.e. she played her c
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