Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Use these words with caution. Chris Jones grammar I always considered 'so' to be comparative, and using it in stand-alone fashion, as in "Thank you SO much" sounded incorrect to me. This clarifies it. Thank you so...uh...very...uh...I sincerely offer my gratitude! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=19642#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=19642#Comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:08 GMT S.S.Sundaresh grammar Dear Grammar Girl, `So` can be used with `that` because this is a cause- effect structure[found in sentences]. I think `so` has a connotation of the comparative [adjectives], whereas `very` is a straightforward intensifier. You need to use two words or phrases which are joined by `so`. If you say `I was so sad`, one of the questions that can be asked is `how sad`? Then a possible answer is `I was so sad that I cried`. This may have something to do with `so` being used as a word whose meaning is `because`. I cried `because` I was sad. In the statement above we could say `I jumped for joy because I was happy`. So, `so` is more like a conjunction......as it joins two parts of a sentence and not an adverb???? Please clarify. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=18923#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=18923#Comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:48:42 GMT Omorose Panya grammar "There's even a strange discussion in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage about whether using so for emphasis is a distinctly female failing, with the Dictionary concluding that it's a universal error although other commentators link it specifically to women"---They're ridiculous. I hear men saying "sooo" all the time. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=18565#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=18565#Comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:01:37 GMT Alma Arthur grammar Dear grammar girl, My concern is that the English language is being corupted by television. It's ok to use bad grammar for effect, but news commentators, Jeopardy contestants, movie actors, politicians, and many young people use the objective pronoun, "me" as a subject. I hear this with increasing frequency. Examples: Me and Paul went to the ball game. Me and my students went to a museum, etc. My seventh grade teacher told us never to begin a sentence with me unless we were quoting Tarzan. "Me Tarzan. You Jane". He also told us to take Paul out of the first sentence, and hear how it sounded to say, "Me went to the ball game". http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=17186#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=17186#Comments Thu, 28 May 2009 07:18:27 GMT Maya grammar I think that so is stonger than very. We use so for things which cannot be done easiely. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=16319#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=16319#Comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:36:20 GMT erika grammar if i'm not mistaken i think you misspelled the word "banished". other than that this is very helpful. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=12884#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=12884#Comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:24:24 GMT Louise grammar I often use "Thank you so much" rather than "Thank you very much" in e-mails once I have e-mailed the person a couple of times (including if it's a somewhat formal relationship). I know that "Thank you very much" is generally considered better, but it sounds so cold to me, and when I want the person to know I really mean it, I tend to use "so" instead. What are your thoughts on this? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=11734#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=11734#Comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:54:03 GMT Mark grammar Fox News seems to use "the very latest" a lot. Does this fall into the Modifying Absolutes area? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=11652#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=11652#Comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:15:59 GMT ty grammar hi i'm from indonesia, i'm still learning to speak english.thanks it's very helpful. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=10308#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=10308#Comments Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:32:56 GMT emily grammar Thanks for the post! It is so v-e-r-y helpful! :D http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=9706#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx?commentid=9706#Comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:18:36 GMT Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:08 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-so-very.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us