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Are these sentences correct: 1-In Germany, Goethe was a great poet such as Shakespeare was in England. 2-Goethe was a great poet such as Shakespeare. 3-He wanted to become a poet such as Shakespeare.

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"such" Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Ed. Robert Allen. Oxford University

such. 1.

SUCH AS AN EMPHASIZER.

How can the House express its indignant rejection of football hooliganism while setting such a persuasive example of undignified and daily indiscipline?—Guardian
Weekly, 1986. The construction with such a followed by an adjective is established and idiomatic in current English, despite occasional objections that
so and not such should do the work of emphasizing here (… while setting so persuasive an example). (Compare the use of such qualifying a noun, to which
nobody objects:

For ***'s sake, Beryl, don't be such a nitwit—J. Drummond, 1975.) In some cases such appears to qualify the combination of adjective and noun:

It is indeed hard to see how such a gigantic work … can be considered ‘minimal’ in any way—Radio Times, 1985.

2.

SUCH AS WITH FOLLOWING PRONOUN.
When an inflecting pronoun follows, it is more natural to regard such as as a preposition and to follow it with me, her, him, etc., rather than I, she,
he, etc. (regarding such as as a conjunction with the continuation understood as such as I am, etc.)

They were not bad, for such as her—Rose Macaulay, 1920.

3.

SUCH AS OR LIKE.
Like is common when a single instance follows (a poet like Tennyson / take a girl like you), but such as is preferable (and more idiomatic) when a list
follows (Members of the cat family, such as the lion, the tiger, and the leopard). See
LIKE (2).

4.

SUCH … AS … OR SUCH … THAT …
We are such stuff as dreams are made on. The relative pronoun that follows such in sentences of this type is as and not who, which, or that. But such followed
by that is legitimate in constructions of the following types, in which that is a conjunction:

Midge was such a dingbat … that she went to Hawaii for a vacation during World War II—J. Irving, 1978 / The ladies who feature with her on her home-video
were such that ‘a man would be lucky to get out of them alive’ (hysterical laughter)—Listener, 1983.

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