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Alc24 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

SO vs SUCH

How would you say these sentences please?

1 The number in the report has never been so low/small.
2 She's just too lazy a person./such a lazy person.
3 He has such nice teeth.
4 We have so little choice.

Thank you
  

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1 The number in the report has never been so low/small. /such a lazy person. - good 3 He has such nice teeth.

  • 1 The number in the report has never been so low/small.
  • /such a lazy person.
  • - good 3 He has such nice teeth.
  • - good 4 We have so little choice.
  • - fine, but i would use 'such' here.
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1 The number in the report has never been so low/small. - good
2 She's just too lazy a person./such a lazy person. - good
3 He has such nice teeth. - good
4 We have so little choice. - fine, but i would use 'such' here.

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Hello

How would you say these sentences please?

1 The number in the report has never been so low.

2 She's just too lazy a person./such a lazy person.Is she too lazy for a certain activity or just very lazy? I would go for "She is such a lazy person". "She is too lazy to do XY and Z"

3 He has such nice teeth.OK

4 We have so little c
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Thank you

and would

"too lazy a person" not work?

Is that not grammatical

the for TOO X A X

too nice a person

too ugly a car

Thanks for the help Louise

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alc24and would
"too lazy a person" not work?
Yes - as I said in my answer.

"She is too lazy to do XY and Z"

But you can't just say "She is too lazy a person" .

She is to lazy a person to clean the house.
She is to nice a person to have all this happen to her.
That is too ugly a car to use

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