So and Such

📒 Grammar Explanation 📒

We can use so and such to intensify adjectives, adverbs and nouns.

📖Adjectives and adverbs:

We can use so with an adjective or adverb to make it stronger.

Examples :

✏️It's so hot today!

✏️She looks so young in that photo.

✏️He walks so slowly. It's so annoying!

📎 If we are using the comparative form of the adjective or adverb, we use so much to make it stronger.

Examples :

✏️They were so much more innocent when they were younger.

✏️I work so much more quickly when I can concentrate.

📖Nouns:

With a noun or adjective + noun, we use such to make it stronger.

Examples :

✏️You're such an angel!

✏️It's such a hot day today!

✏️They're such lovely trousers. Where did you buy them?

📎 However, when we use much, many, little and few with a noun, we use so to make it stronger.

Examples :

✏️There are so many people here!

✏️I've had so little time to myself this week.

📎Saying the result

We often use these so and such structures with that and a clause to say what the result is.

Examples :

✏️It was so cold that the water in the lake froze.

✏️He was such a good teacher that we all passed the exam.

✏️There's so much noise that I can't think!