so and such
I've thoroughly come to grips with the grammatical functions of "so" and "such", like the following sentences:
the book is so boring = it is such a boring book
but I've been wondering if that's grammatically correct if we use "so" in phrases like this:
so boring a book
i mean in this structure: so + adj+ a/an+ noun (e.g. he is so nice a man, Paris is so beautiful a city)

Question

so and such
I've thoroughly come to grips with the grammatical functions of "so" and "such", like the following sentences:
the book is so boring = it is such a boring book
but I've been wondering if that's grammatically correct if we use "so" in phrases like this:
so boring a book
i mean in this structure: so + adj+ a/an+ noun (e.g. he is so nice a man, Paris is so beautiful a city)

Answer

Actually, you can use it. It's perfectly fine and grammatically correct.

The caveat is that the sentence then sounds poetic, so you can't use it in everyday speech.

Answer

No that is not grammatically correct. So comes before the adj but the adj almost always comes before the noun. In rare cases it may come after. But I cannot think of a time that the adjective would come before a/an/the.

Hope this helps :)

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