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
No.
Do you really think we could have a picnic in this cold, rainy weather?
Mr. TomHi
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.
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.