hi guys and welcome back to love English oh I have a special guest on today's
show this is Maya Maya look at the camera you're being very patient look
say hi to everybody say hi hi Maya is here because she can demonstrate very
quickly the grammar point that I am teaching you today so and such she is
such a naughty cat sometimes such a cute cat or oh you're so cute aren't you so
cute but she's also very impatient so say bye-bye I'm gonna start the lesson
again without it
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community today I'm going to be looking at two confusing words so and such now
these words might seem really simple but actually it's something that you guys
often get confused by this is going to be the first in a series of lessons that
I explained to you how to use some of these confusing words that we have in
the English language so today so and such a Liron I introduced you to Maia
Maia little Siberian kitten little monkey really and I said she is such a
cute kitten or she's so cute so look at those two sentences there we've got more
examples sabra is so kind sabra is such a kind friend the weather is so hot
today it's such a hot day now so in such here are being used to add emphasis to
make something sound stronger so my kitten is not just cute but she's so
cute or she's such a cute cat in the same way we could say very oh really
she's really cute she's very cute now all we're doing like I said is
adding emphasis so if I wanted to I could change the sentence to say she's
really cute she's very cute now if you didn't already recognize the pattern in
the sentences you might once I point it out so is used with either an adverb or
an adjective so here we've got she's so cute she's so kind it's so hot
all of these are adjectives at the end of the sentence the so is strengthening
the adjective it's making it stronger and adding emphasis suggesting it's very
hot very cute or very kind so also goes with adverbs we could say
she's so beautiful or she sang so beautifully
remember adverbs often have those L wise at the end that's a good indication it's
an adverb such goes with a noun or a noun phrase so she's such a cute cat
she's such a beautiful girl she's such a beautiful singer now be careful because
yes there are adjectives there but look behind the adjective we have got a noun
so that is the difficulty really with so and such often you see the adjective in
front of the noun or indeed the adverb and you get confused you think ah it
must be she's so a cute cat so that's the
grammar let's see if we can practice using so and such correctly a quick test
to help you and make sure that you stop making these tiny little errors when you
speak so or such I want you to change at the sentence to use the alternative word
with the same meaning are you ready he's so honest he's so honest
how can we use such here he's such an honest man
he's such an honest man well done if you got that one he works so hard he works
so hard how can we change this he's such a hard worker he's such a hard worker
come on number three the dinner was so delicious the dinner was so delicious
it was such a delicious dinner it was such a delicious dinner again well done
if you got that correct okay let's start with such I have such a
long day I had such a long day my day was so long my day was so long it's such
a great University it's such a great University the
university is that's right so great the university is so great just in case that
you thought the lesson was over it's not very briefly I want to explain an
exception to this rule of course normally we say that so would not go
with a noun so it goes purely with the adjective if you have a noun then you
would need such as I've explained before she's such a cute kitten in fact so can
go with an ounce they can go with nouns when we are trying to quantify them
in this case we can use so much so many so few or so little so much with
uncountable an ounce she has so much money I ate so much food she added so
much sugar uncountable nouns so much so many of course then is going to be with
countable nouns there are so many apples there are so many people here tonight
there are so many lessons on YouTube about learning English then we can have
so few with again countable nouns there are so few apples there are so few
people this is again adding some emphasis to really explain that there
really are not a lot of something so little we'd go with uncountable nouns like
so few again explaining that there really isn't a lot I have so little
money this week I have so little money to go out
there's so little chocolate left chocolate can be countable or
uncountable I think that's going to be another lesson coming very soon and so
so much so many so few and so little are still adding emphasis they are
explaining how much there is of something so whether it's a lot or very
little it's still adding emphasis but just with quantities rather than
qualities I suppose ok keep watching to the end to get another glimpse of my
very cute kitten with one more example of so and such try and use some
sentences below with so and such make your sentences stronger and make sure
you're using those words correctly thank you so much for watching and I look
forward to seeing you from my next confusing words left
say hi to everybody say hi she is so hungry look at that Balu she's so hungry
are you such a hungry cat oh she's so hungry you say it okay