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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

too - so (structures)

0 Hi,02br
00I'd like an opinion on the following examples. Which are possible structures?02br
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01b00"White noise" is a term too technical.02br
00"White noise" is a term too technical for your essay.02br
00"White noise" is too technical a term.02br
00"White noise" is too technical a term for your essay.02br
02br
00I've never seen a photo so nice.02br
00I've never seen so nice a photo.02br
02br
00I've never seen a forum as big as this.02br
00I've never seen as big a forum as this.02b
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00Thanks. 050010id1
  

Top answer

0 01b 00"White noise" is a term too technical. )02br 00"White noise" is a term too technical for your essay. (Passable.

  • 0 01b 00"White noise" is a term too technical.
  • )02br 00"White noise" is a term too technical for your essay.
  • (Passable.
  • )02br 00"White noise" is too technical a term.
  • )02br 00"White noise" is too technical a term for your essay.
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0 01b00"White noise" is a term too technical. (Not good.)02br
00"White noise" is a term too technical for your essay. (Passable. Not great.)02br
00"White noise" is too technical a term. (Good.)02br
00"White noise" is too technical a term for your essay. (Good.)02b
02br
00 The term "white noise" is too technical. (Good.)02b
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01cite10CalifJim12cite11b12br
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10Sometimes it's not the structure that's wrong; it's that the specific words don't seem to work well. The situation is sometimes not right for the structure.12br
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10Yeah, unfortunately, that's true.02br
00Of course 01b0
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101. This is a car too small for you.12br
102. This is too small a car for you.12br
103. That's a box too heavy to lift.12br
104. That's too heavy a box to lift.12br
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10Hello Kooyeen,02br
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00The structures in #2 and #4 are th
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0 Can you paraphrase this so I can get the meaning better?02br
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01i00It was a bridge too far.02i02br
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00 We traveled across one more bridge than we should have?02br
00 It sounds like poetry more than prose to me.02br
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00 On the other hand, from the point of view of grammar, I agree that sometime

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