As a final illustration of the “so versus such” issue, let us return to lovely Bertha. “Such” describes a noun in the original sentence.
“Bertha was such a beauty that her father would sit on the porch each night with a baseball bat.”
The noun can be swapped out for an adjective to accommodate the word “so.”
“Bertha was so beautiful that her father would sit on the porch each night with a baseball bat.”
The words such and so are also part of various English idioms, some of which seem at first to bend or even break the rules. Do you know any?
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