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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Substitute for so

Hi,

Is there some other way, a more formal way, to connect clauses without 'so'? Can we use 'on account of which/owing to which' in place of 'so' to make it more formal? The militants were going from strength to strength, on account of which/owing to which the president has to take drastic measures.

Warmly,
  

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Hi Anon: So is becoming trite and hackneyed. I hear people using it unncessarily in conversations, particularly at the beginning of a sentence and to intensify adjectives. But so still has good uses in formal writing such as your sentence: The militants were going from strength to strength, so the president had to take drastic measures.

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  • Hi Anon: So is becoming trite and hackneyed.
  • I hear people using it unncessarily in conversations, particularly at the beginning of a sentence and to intensify adjectives.
  • But so still has good uses in formal writing such as your sentence: The militants were going from strength to strength, so the president had to take drastic measures.
  • If you want to avoid so , then use therefore or thus .
  • The militants were going from strength to strength, therefore the president had to take drastic measures.
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Hi Anon:

So is becoming trite and hackneyed. I hear people using it unncessarily in conversations, particularly at the beginning of a sentence and to intensify adjectives. But so still has good uses in formal writing such as your sentence:

The militants were going from strength to strength, so the president had to take drastic measures.

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