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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

So + noun ??

Hi, I know you can say (so + adjective) "These shoes were so ugly that they stopped selling them" Ugly being the adjective. But what about so + noun, the noun being "the old":

These shoes are so for the old that they stopped selling it in this hip store.
  

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That is very slangy, but you will hear it from teenagers. It is actually a separate slang structure that you have presented, however: 'so + phrase'. He is so not with it that everyone avoids him.

  • That is very slangy, but you will hear it from teenagers.
  • It is actually a separate slang structure that you have presented, however: 'so + phrase'.
  • He is so not with it that everyone avoids him.
  • She is so in your face that I dislike talking to her.
  • The standard structure for a noun is with 'such': These shoes are so ugly that they don't sell.
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That is very slangy, but you will hear it from teenagers. It is actually a separate slang structure that you have presented, however: 'so + phrase'. He is so not with it that everyone avoids him. She is so in your face that I dislike talking to her.

The standard structure for a noun is with 'such':

These shoes are so ugly that they don't sell.

These sho

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