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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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so ... as / as ... as

1b00Few things ---- unnerved the Spanish conquerors of the New World ---- the prospect of death on Aztec sacrificial stone.02br
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02b00A) as / as02br
00B) so / as02br
00C) not only / but also02br
00D) neither / nor02br
00E) so / that02br
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00How a structure this is! Can you illuminate?0-
  

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0 I think my choice would be: -/more than02br
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01b00Few things unnerved the Spanish conquerors of the New World more than the prospect of death on Aztec sacrificial stone.02b0-
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0 01i00Few ... so ... as ....02br
00 Not many ... so ... as ....02br
00 Nothing so ... as ....02br
00 Nobody so ... as ...02i02br
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01i00few02i00 is considered a word with negative polarity, so it follows the same pattern as negative words.02br
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00 The pattern is more lite
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0 Hi, Jim. Thank you for the answer. Grammars I know do not deal with this. I don't know why. So would you use the second ones in daily life. Don't you ever use the first ones? It seems to me the first structure is preferred for the purpose of "emphasis", isn't it? 0-
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0 Yes, the second ones are used in everyday situations. As a rule I don't use the first ones, with the possible exception of times when I wish to sound literary! And then there are a few cases where I use them because they are part of a proverb, such as the following.02br
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01i00There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.02br
00 There are no
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