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Hi

Is this sentence fully natural in spoken English?

(Mother to an angry child...)

OK, you tell me. Is the weather such that we can plan a picnic?

Thanks,

Tom

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No.

Do you really think we could have a picnic in this cold, rainy weather?

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Mr. Tom

Hi

Is this sentence fully natural in spoken English?

(Mother to an angry child...)

OK, you tell me. Is the weather such that we can plan a picnic?

Thanks,

Tom

Ooph! Only one mother in several hundred thousand would use "such that".

"such that" belongs in a mathematics textbook!

CJ

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Thanks, Rover-KE.

I also checked Google and it does cough up a few examples of 'Is the weather such...'. Could you please have a look and shed some more light on this use?

https://www.google.com/search?ei=j4v4XsKLNIuelwTf6obQCw&q=%22Is+the+weather+such+that%22&oq=%22Is+the+weather+such+that%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB4yCAghEBYQHRAeMggIIRAWEB0QHjIICCEQFhAdEB46BAgAEEc6BggAEBYQHlDLZljVdWCCd2gAcAF4AIABhgKIAb4LkgEDMi02mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiCj6_8v6TqAhULz4UKHV-1AboQ4dUDCAw&uact=5

Regards,

Tom

It's not something a child would understand.

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Thanks again. One last question please.

Apart from a child's understanding the sentence, is there anything wrong with this sentence structure?

Is the weather such that we can...

Regards,

Tom

It's grammatical but unnatural.

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