Welcome to „Language Corner“. Diese Woche schauen wir uns die englischen Wörter „so“ und „such“ näher an. Vergleichen Sie diese beiden Beispielsätze:

Test yourself with these examples. Enter either "so" or "such" (a) in the gap. The solution is at the bottom of the page. Or come and join a course and practise them until you can use them without a moment’s hesitation!

1. She always smells so good. She uses ________ nice perfume.
2. You speak ________ good English, you are sure to be promoted, soon.
3. Sally is ________ helpful – she just offered to iron all my shirts for me!
4. I love the Irish, they’re ________ nice people.
5. Smoking is _________ awful. It leaves ________ a horrible smell in the house.
6. My holiday was really great - we had ________ fantastic weather!
7. Heaven’s above! I didn’t realise it was ________ late! Call Jeeves to take us home.
8. English pub grub is often ________ awful! I’ve never tasted ________ awful food.

Ihr Alan Connor

Solution: 1. such (a), 2. such, 3. so, 4. such, 5. so, such, 6. such (not such “a”),
7. so, 8. so, such