not so adjective as - when we compare different things (different kinds) E.g.: This apple is not so nice as that orange. I'm not so tall as the horse. My grandmother is not so old as the wardrobe. My head is not so big as the melon. I'm not so intelligent as a dolphin. as adjective as - when we compare the same things (the same kinds) E.g.:

2016年3月1日 · But it's not so much that it's wrong, as that it implies things a bit differently and is therefore rarer. From that ngram graph we can also see that, while putting "if so" in the middle of a sentence is almost as common as putting it at the beginning, "if yes" is very nearly always at the beginning. This points, again, to the difference in usage.

2016年12月20日 · in order to and so as to are more formal and used before verbs like know, seem, understand: ... I asked in order to know.... so that is less formal - and often reduced to so in informal use. It also is used with modal verbs like can: ... so that I can ... so that and in order to need a subject/verb: ... I did this so that I could...

2021年5月3日 · So am I. I'm eating ice cream. So am I. You use "so have I" when you are responding to some form of the verb have. You will always use "so have I" when have is the auxiliary verb for the present perfect: I've eaten too much ice cream. So have I. You may use either "so do I" or "so have I" when have is used on its own to denote possession of ...

2017年1月16日 · "So long and thanks for all the fish" is the title of the fourth book from the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" tetralogy. Used in a message it is just a humourous way to say goodbye, calling to mind the leaving of the dolphins from …

2019年2月1日 · In A. the adverb "so" licenses the complement clause and is fine. But "too" doesn't licence declarative content clause like this, so B. is ungrammatical. Note, though, that "too" can license infinitivals: He was too tired to do the homework.

2015年8月13日 · More completely, "So we on" means that they have been doing this thing, they do not want to do this thing, but despite of or because of whatever was explained before this sentence, they continue to do so anyway. But when it concludes "borne back ceaselessly into the past" we can tell this is going somewhere metaphorical.

2025年2月7日 · so is an intensifying adverb: He's not so nice. so used this way means almost the opposite. He's no so nice. means he pretty nasty or rude or not very nice. b. Ian is very tall. His brother is not as tall. That means his brother is not as tall as he is. as tall [as x] is a comparative structure. And in comparatives, you can shorten it to just ...

2021年9月12日 · So these two terms, "et cetera" and "and so on" are basically equivalent. Using one vs. the other is a matter of style more than anything else. If I had to distinguish between them the usage of "etc." or "et cetera" is more common is written English especially where the purpose of the writing is more formal.

Look at the following examples taken from various dictionaries, where a comma has been used before the "so that" that shows the result of the action just stated in the first clause. He chopped the wolf's head from its body, so that it immediately died (Wikipedia). He got up very late, so that he missed the bus (The Free Dictionary).