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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

So many people//such fine weather

I have met so many people in the last few days that I can't remember all of their names.

It's such fine weather that we'd like to go out.

Hi,
I think so and such fit well in their own contexts in the above, but could you tell me why the first sentence uses "so" while the second "such" though the underlined structures are similar? Thanks.


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so and such are used in a variety of patterns. so is an adverb of degree, or a "degree item", so it's used to modify adjectives and adverbs. so many, so much, so little, so few, so happy, so happily, so simple, so simply, so polite, so politely such is adjectival, and it goes with nouns.

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so and such are used in a variety of patterns.

so
is an adverb of degree, or a "degree item", so it's used to modify adjectives and adverbs.

so many, so much, so little, so few, so happy, so happily, so simple, so simply, so polite, so politely

such is adjectival, and it goes with nouns.

such weather, such things, such happ