What can be wrong with confused syntax?
What Can power be? Are they relatively invisible?
What is the “as to be” part of a sentence that confuses me most? Power is such an intuitive, low-key part of society that people don’t notice it,, I can’t get it and make up my
mind.
(To a Dictionary) is “Similar enough to something as to become it” ((Miss : “similar enough to a very large molecule)”. Is it generally used in a pattern “X is so Y as to be Z”?
That capillaries are the smallest blood veins, and capillaries of power is a metaphor, power is imagined to be flowing into every part of society like that blood flow from a heart to the smallest muscle. Innocuous means “having no harmful effect”. My interpretation of your statement is correct.
Something can be so X as to VERB + COMPLEMENT
Here are some example uses:
Tea can be so hot as to be undrinkable.
As children, brothers can look so much alike as to be mistaken for each other.
so + QUALITY means “possessing quality to such a degree”. The pattern is often complemented by a clause that expresses the result or implications of having the said quality to such a degree. How could I enhance VERB + as to?
The days were so torrid as to present a real risk of heat-stroke.
The days were so hot, that we could never play tennis after breakfast.
Isn’t he prepared for being drafted by the NBA first round?
Is Zaha so dangerous with his jab that he gives up his all-around MMA fight?
If I did happen to be in the train for a week, it would be an unreliable way to get to work at 10 AM. I wish I’d got off at 5 AM.
What is the best way to describe it?
Something can be so X as to VERB + COMPLEMENT
Here are some example uses:
Tea can be so hot as to be undrinkable.
As children, brothers can look so much alike as to be mistaken for each other.
so + QUALITY means “possessing quality to such a degree”. The pattern is often complemented by a clause that expresses the result or implications of having the said quality to such a degree. How could I enhance VERB + as to?
The days were so torrid as to present a real risk of heat-stroke.
The days were so hot, that we could never play tennis after breakfast.
Isn’t he prepared for being drafted by the NBA first round?
Is Zaha so dangerous with his jab that he gives up his all-around MMA fight?
If I did happen to be in the train for a week, it would be an unreliable way to get to work at 10 AM. I wish I’d got off at 5 AM.
What is the best way to describe it?
