关于so that和so as to

eziogaming

我在看PREP08的时候有专门留这两个语法点，但是今天重新复习OG12版第37题时，发现A选项和C选项很难取舍。答案选了A
it is so debilitating that it has become an economic, C是so debilitating is it as to become an economic.  REP08 174 题解释中提到：“so that可用作多个主语”，而“so as to 一般用于单一主语”。单对这道题，我觉得两个选项实在很难取舍，而OG对C的解释干脆是so as to 不是正确的idiom。彻底崩溃啊，求解救！

eziogaming

受教了！

quote：so that和so as to的区别


i don't think that gmac will ask you to distinguish between them. (if you see a split like that in a problem, then scour the choices for other differences.)
nevertheless, i think i can give you some sort of explanation: in general, you don't use so ADJ as to VERB unless the VERB describes some sort of state/condition. i.e., if the verb is an action verb, this construction generally isn't used.


for instance,
i am so ugly as to be viscerally repulsive to women. --> this works, because the verb “to be” describes a state/condition.



i am so ugly as to repel women on sight. --> you generally wouldn't see this in good writing, as “repel” is an action verb; the sentence would probably be written as i am so ugly that i repel women on sight.




so as to +表示状态的动词在prep出现过，作为正确答案：174. Oftenmajor economic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at firstfrom ordinary fluctuations in the financial markets.

但是so as to+working verb从未出现为正确答案

-- by 会员 DUKB24 (2012/10/2 23:21:37)

DUKB24

quote：so that和so as to的区别


i don't think that gmac will ask you to distinguish between them. (if you see a split like that in a problem, then scour the choices for other differences.)
nevertheless, i think i can give you some sort of explanation: in general, you don't use so ADJ as to VERB unless the VERB describes some sort of state/condition. i.e., if the verb is an action verb, this construction generally isn't used.


for instance,
i am so ugly as to be viscerally repulsive to women. --> this works, because the verb “to be” describes a state/condition.



i am so ugly as to repel women on sight. --> you generally wouldn't see this in good writing, as “repel” is an action verb; the sentence would probably be written as i am so ugly that i repel women on sight.




so as to + 表示状态的动词在prep出现过，作为正确答案：174. Oftenmajor economic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at firstfrom ordinary fluctuations in the financial markets.

但是so as to+working verb从未出现为正确答案