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hi in today's lesson you're going to be learning about two very important but
very common words in English so and such you will learn how and when to use them
and at the end of the video there are some exercises to check how much you've
learnt so keep watching until the end well let's get started
they can be used in a few different ways but today we're primarily going to look
at how they can add emphasis to sentences and how we can make the
meaning stronger of what you want to say so when you want to make your sentences
have a stronger meaning you can use the words so and such and they are very
similar in meaning to very or really so with adjectives and adverbs we use so so
plus the adjective or adverb phrase for example the teacher is so nice she's
very nice or he eats so quickly he eats really quickly whereas with
nouns and noun phrases we use such so it's such plus the noun or noun phrase
for example they are such nice people when the known is plural or she is such
a nice teacher not a such nice teacher when it's singular so it's such plus the
adjective plus the noun here the adjective a noun
together or a noun phrase so we use such so be careful as okay this is an
adjective but we are describing the noun so we use such so to recap we use so
plus the adjective or adverb and such plus the noun or noun phrase let's look
at some uses of so and such this pizza is so good here good is the adjective so
we use so using such instead of so would be it is such a good pizza good pizza is
a noun phrase so he is such we're describing the noun the pizza
or he is such a fast driver here we're using such aa because we're describing a
fast driver this is a noun phrase to change the sentence in order to use so
we could say he drives so fast here we're describing the adverb fast
and so we use so we can also say so something that and such something that
for example the film was so exciting that I couldn't stop watching it or it
was such an exciting film that I couldn't stop watching it but often than
that is left out it was such an exciting film I couldn't stop watching it we can
also use so and such to mean like this for instance the house is a hundred
years old I didn't realize it was so old I didn't realize it's as old as it is or
I didn't realize it was such an old house or I'm tired as I got up at 6:00
a.m. I don't usually get up so early this means really as early as that I
don't usually get up at this time at 6:00 a.m. or I don't usually have such
an early start as earlier start as this it is also common in expressions there's
an expression no such so for instance there's no such thing as ghosts ghosts
don't exist or there are such a lot of something I'm
sorry I'm late there was such a lot of traffic however there is one important
exception to these rules we use so in front of much many little and few plus
the noun so normally we use such when we describe a noun but if we use these
quantifiers as much many little and few to tell us the quantity of the noun we
use so so for example so much food was wasted every day
and not such much food was wasted or in those days there were so few doctors in
our area and not there were such few doctors so now it's your turn put in the
gap so such or such it was a great holiday
we had blank good time such ah we're describing the noun time so we used such
and it's a singular as it's an uncountable known so we used such a good
time I was surprised that he looked blank well after his recent operation
here we used so as we're describing the adverb well so it's he looked so well he
always looks good he wears blank nice clothes such as we're describing the
clothes even though it's followed by an adjective this is the noun phrase nice
clothes so it's such nice clothes it's also a plural so there's no ah I have to
go I didn't realize it was blank late so late lady's and adjectives so we use so
there were blank many people we left the shopping centre early so as we're using
the quantifier many we use so even though we're describing a noun
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