jabhatta2 wrote:
ReedArnoldMPREP wrote:
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Secondly, I suppose this is an idiom? But it's also just... definitional. "So" (when used like this) means "to an excessive amount, resulting in something" (as in, "I was so hungry that I ate two burritos"). Now, in colloquial speech we often leave out the second part and just use 'so' for emphasis meaning, basically, 'extremely' ("I was *so* hungry"), however on the GMAT that's too informal. B is kind of playing with that common usage.
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Hi
ReedArnoldMPREP - on the blue font - is that acceptable on the GMAT ? I think the sentence above is acceptable because the "THAT" is playing the role of divider of the 2 clauses (clause 1 -
I was so hungry) (clause 2 -
I ate two burritos)
Now, i am more confused
So....that IS ACCEPTABLE on the GMAT
So, whats wrong with (B) then
B says "so apparent *than*"
Not 'so apparent that' (and if it said 'so apparent that,' it would not make a complete thought. "Nowhere was her influence so apparent that the novels of James Fenimore Cooper."
A). What did the novels of James Fenimore Cooper *do*?
B). Even if they DID do something, the meaning would be "Jane Austen's influence was never high enough to make James Fenimore Cooper's novels [do something]."
The meaning is clearly "Jane Austen's influence was at its maximum in James fenimore Cooper's novels."
The meaning of 'so... that,' in this place, wouldn't work. You'd have to say something like, "The influence of Jane Austen in James Fenimore Cooper's novels was so apparent that nowhere else in early American Literature can match it."
But that is a completely different structure.