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Originally Posted by Humble  Hi, chaves,
It's easy.
With nouns following adjectives, you use either such a or so +adjective + a: Lily is such a charming girl! You have such cute kittens!
It seems to me, the other phrase is not so common in casual speech. This is not so urgent a matter [as] to discuss it now. 
When there is an adjective or an adverb in the final position or when there is no noun, we use so: Your new sweater is so cool! She sings so sweetly! Not so fast, young man! It's so wonderful! So wonderful!
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I couldn't have put it so succinctly myself (as you could probably have guessed
)
In the sentence I've queried, I'd normally expect the
as (as marked). I think I have met it without, but I'd always include the
as myself.
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