It is so a fat dog

[trueheart_205]

Could I say 'It is so a fat dog' or 'It is a so fat dog' or 'It is so fat a dog'?
Which is right?
Thanks!

[charliedeut]

Hi,

IMO, the last one is OK. As an alternative: "It is such a fat dog".

charliedeut

[Rover_KE]

Teenagers seem to talk like this.

Grown-ups tend to say 'It's such a fat dog that it can't walk without starting to wheeze'.

Rover

[Raymott]

Could I say 'It is so a fat dog' or 'It is a so fat dog' or 'It is so fat a dog'?
Which is right?
Thanks!

That depends entirely on what you mean.

A: That's not a fat dog.
B: It is so a fat dog!
OK; the other versions don't work here.

[tzfujimino]

That depends entirely on what you mean.

A: That's not a fat dog.
B: It is so a fat dog!
OK; the other versions don't work here.

May I ask a question here? (I think I've just learnt a new thing here.)
In your example, the word "so" is used like "really"?

(I knew "It is such a fat dog." or "It is so fat a dog." are grammatically fine.)

[Raymott]

May I ask a question here? (I think I've just learnt a new thing here.)
In your example, the word "so" is used like "really"?

(I knew "It is such a fat dog." or "It is so fat a dog." are grammatically fine.)

It means, "It is indeed a fat dog". It's an emphatic assertion against someone else who is denying it, as in:

A: It is not!
B: It is so!
I believe Americans prefer "It is too!" or even "It is too a fat dog!"

By the way, how do you use "It is so fat a dog"?

[tzfujimino]

It means, "It is indeed a fat dog". It's an emphatic assertion against someone else who is denying it, as in:

A: It is not!
B: It is so!
I believe Americans prefer "It is too!" or even "It is too a fat dog!"

By the way, how do you use "It is so fat a dog"?

Hello, Raymott.
Well, if I understand the structure correctly, 'so', 'as', 'too'... etc are used like this:
so/as/too + adjective + a(n) + noun

It is so fat a dog that I cannot lift it.
It is such a fat dog that I cannot lift it.

Am I correct?

[Webserf]

"It is so fat a dog", isn't proper grammar, (to me).
I don't feel that any of the original examples were written properly.

It is such a fat dog, to me says exactly what the the writer is trying to convey, that is, a dog upon visual inspection or impression, is fat.

The aforementioned suggests American English is being used!

As always, IMHO
~Webserf

[Raymott]

Hello, Raymott.
Well, if I understand the structure correctly, 'so', 'as', 'too'... etc are used like this:
so/as/too + adjective + a(n) + noun

It is so fat a dog that I cannot lift it.
It is such a fat dog that I cannot lift it.

Am I correct?

It sounds strange in a colloquial sense like this, though technically it's correct. Your sentence with "such" is by far the more common.

[tzfujimino]

It sounds strange in a colloquial sense like this, though technically it's correct. Your sentence with "such" is by far the more common.

Yes, I know it is rather formal. (I've read it in a grammar book.)