Timeline for A sentence structure that confuses me: "as... so..."
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| May 28, 2018 at 11:06 | comment | added | KarlG | What is the sentence before this one? The so may signal the clause as a consequence not having anything to do with settling dust in Cape Town. | |
| May 28, 2018 at 9:18 | answer | added | Michael Harvey | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 28, 2018 at 9:10 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'As ... so ...' is probably archaic now. Deleting the 'so' (and adding a comma) gives the modern (almost exactly) synonymous sentence. It might be felt that the 'so' nuances a causal relationship rather than a mere (synchronic/subsequent) temporal one. / The comma was optional when the structure was idiomatic. // 'Task' means the battles there would be, the inevitable struggles, in winning the World Cup. The singular is chosen to focus on the overall campaign rather than individual matches. / I doubt I'd find reasonable supporting references for the first question; the second is off-topic. | |
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| May 28, 2018 at 8:52 | history | asked | San Kim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |