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10 Feb 2020, 03:01
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Dear DmitryFarber ccooley KyleWiddison rjacobsMGMAT MarkSullivan
Dear IanStewart
Dear all verbal experts,
I wonder whether "SO MANY ... AS" is a correct idiom?
There is INCONSISTENCY between the two SC books.
According to Veritas SC book P.51 (Skillbuilder section)
However, the above goes against with what is stated in MGMAT SC book Chapter 9 Idioms P.142 (AS...AS topic)
I'm not sure who is right.
Can SO MANY...AS be ever correct?
Could Veritas or MGMAT experts show an official example to support or falsify this usage?
Thank you all in advance! :please :please :please
Dear DmitryFarber ccooley KyleWiddison rjacobsMGMAT MarkSullivan
Dear IanStewart
Dear all verbal experts,
I wonder whether "SO MANY ... AS" is a correct idiom?
There is INCONSISTENCY between the two SC books.
According to Veritas SC book P.51 (Skillbuilder section)
Quote:
However, the above goes against with what is stated in MGMAT SC book Chapter 9 Idioms P.142 (AS...AS topic)
Quote:
I'm not sure who is right.
Can SO MANY...AS be ever correct?
Could Veritas or MGMAT experts show an official example to support or falsify this usage?
Thank you all in advance! :please :please :please
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11 Feb 2020, 09:40
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It's definitely sometimes a correct idiom. The "so many... as" idiom is only used, though, when a statement is expressed in the negative (and in that case, "as many... as" is also correct). So the sentence you highlight above:
"There have rarely been SO MANY instances of fraud AS during the housing boom of the last decade"
is correct because "rarely" is expressing a negative connotation. You could also say "as many". If you change the word "rarely" to "often", though:
"There have often been SO MANY instances of fraud AS during the housing boom of the last decade"
the sentence is no longer correct. In this case, "as many" is required.
So you can't always use "so many ... as" and "as many ... as" interchangeably, which is why your "apples" sentence is incorrect when it uses "so many". The "so many ... as" idiom is also only ever used in formal writing, and I think it's fading out of the language (most people just always say "as many"), so it won't "sound right" if you use it in an informal sentence. So if you modified the sentence you quote above about apples to make it negative, it would become correct to say "so many" (as I understand things) but it sounds wrong to my ear, and I don't think anyone would use "so many" in that kind of sentence these days.
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