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how is this sentence correct? [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2015, 22:58
I was doing to different reading trying to get some different pointers on differ SC things I may have overlooked and came across this sentence that a few sources claim to be correct

I want to eat some such sweet as a chocolate or a pastry.


Can someone explain to me how the use of such ___ as is correct in this sentence?

I am a native speaker and if someone said this I would have no idea what they just said.
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Re: how is this sentence correct? [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2015, 23:13
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If this is the sentence: I want to eat some such sweet as a chocolate or a pastry.

Then I am with you and don't know how it can be correct :-)
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Re: how is this sentence correct? [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2015, 23:19
ok good, i thought i was going crazy lol

It was in the Aristotle guide and also on this site

https://gmat-verbalguru.blogspot.ca/2010 ... ch-as.html
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Re: how is this sentence correct? [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2015, 23:49
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I think it is just a bad sentence and ad odd example?
I have read it 20 times and it is starting to click if I read the word "sweet" as a noun (e.g. candy is a sweet) but it is still and odd example and i would probably spend my time elsewhere frankly. I don't think you will meet some such pain as above on the test. LOL.
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Re: how is this sentence correct? [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2015, 04:11
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Hi,

I was also struck by the usage of "such....XXX... as" when I started studying. Not sure about the above sentence though.

Below is a link where Mike of Magoosh explains it:

stymieing-the-armadas-plans-to-meet-up-with-the-duke-of-119400-20.html?hilit=such#p1536512
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Re: how is this sentence correct? [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2015, 14:39
GMATDemiGod wrote:
I was doing to different reading trying to get some different pointers on differ SC things I may have overlooked and came across this sentence that a few sources claim to be correct

I want to eat some such sweet as a chocolate or a pastry.


Can someone explain to me how the use of such ___ as is correct in this sentence?

I am a native speaker and if someone said this I would have no idea what they just said.


Maybe it was meant to be "such sweets as"? This would work because "such as" provides a list of examples, and inserting a word in between tells you the category. Here the category would be "sweets".

In other words, it would provide a list of examples of sweets that the author likes.

"some" seems out of place though
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