Idioms involving “as� + "so"

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Idioms involving “as� + "so"

by beastheart » Wed May 19, 2010 11:52 am
Idioms involving "as"

- Regarded as, Plays as, Defined as, Depicted as
- as long as, As much as
- such questions as
- X as means to Y:
- X as an Instance of Y
- As many X as Y
- As X as Y :
- Think of X as Y
- Use X as Y
- such X as Y and Z
- Same to X as to Y
- Just as: can replace in the same way that:Just as Elvis changed the face of rock n roll, Hawking changed the face of astrophysics
- Just as X, so Y :Just as gills are to fish, so lungs are to humans.
- Just as X, so too: Just as stealing is frowned upon, so too is cheating.


Idioms Involving "so"

- so X as to be Y : He was so jovial as to be practically silly
- so X that Y:
- Same to X as to Y"
- not so much X as Y: "Not so much to show Jane up as to make her appear foolish, Sarah pointed out Jane's error to
their supervisor."
- Use "So [ADJECTIVE] as to [VERB]" as comparator: "Her debts are so extreme as to threaten
her company." Do not use it to substitute for "in order to"

Please append the list with more Idioms or examples as you many as you would like to share, but I am curious how do you remember this ?
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by KapTeacherEli » Thu May 20, 2010 11:33 am
beastheart wrote:
Please append the list with more Idioms or examples as you many as you would like to share, but I am curious how do you remember this ?
The way to remember this is not to remember this :-)

If you've learned English at all, whether through being raised a native speaker or through studying at school, you'll know a lot of idioms--most of them, in fact. For that reason, I find comprehensive lists of all idioms to be less than useful--since the odds are you're spending 50-90% of the time working on that list studying things you already know!

Time spent studying idioms should focus on two things: commonly tested idioms (Regard as, Not Only...But Also, and a few others; Kaplan has lists available in most of our course books), and the ones that you discover don't sound natural to you personally. Trying to learn every idiom in the English language isn't an efficient use of your time.
Eli Meyer
Kaplan GMAT Teacher
Cambridge, MA
www.kaptest.com/gmat

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