“I love subjects like algebra and Russian.” “such as…”
Have you noticed that some people say: “I love dishes like dumplings and sausages” – instead of just saying: “I love dumplings and sausages”? What kind of construction is this? And is it always appropriate? We deal with the teacher and the author blog in english in verse and prose Maria Chepinitskaya.
Constructions with the place “such” and the union “like” are quite common in official business style speech:
- Acts such as…
- The exclusion of the presence of documents such as …
However, other styles are not far behind:
- I like such names as Gleb, Boris and Nikodim.
- We visited such cities as Suzdal, Ryazan and Kazan.
True, if in the context of using the name the construction “such (,) as” looks quite organic (especially when the speaker does not specifically mean these names, but, perhaps, all conditionally “Slavic”), then in the second one I want to say more simply: “We visited Suzdal, Ryazan and Kazan.
We have a desire to complicate our lives (and speech), it is not entirely clear. (as is the case with most clericalisms), construction with a place Perhaps makes our statement more significant, and us – more significant?
When It is important to remember about punctuation marks:
- usually a comma is placed before the union “as”: “I love to reread authors such as Sartre and Camus”;
- a comma is placed before “such” if the words “such as” correspond to the previous property: “The weather was rainy, such as autumn”;
- a comma is placed before “such” if the words “such as” are used after a generalizing word before a number of homogeneous members (we do not put a colon after “like”): “We visited the cities of the Golden Ring, such as Suzdal, Kostroma, Yaroslavl”.
The main thing is not to accept that a complex structure is not always taken into account in the perception of information. Rather the opposite.
There was one eccentric I knew:
Poems wrote such as,
such as cooked soups,
such as pants were worn.
Everything was, in general, not bad,
Although, to be honest, how…
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