English for International Students Unit

The following revision is taken from the dissertation of a Japanese-speaking student of Finance

Original	Revisions
... many studies have argued that MNC's have become so powerful and are now beyond the capacity of the government to control them.	... many studies have argued that MNC's have become too powerful and are now beyond the capacity of the government to control them.
... many studies have argued that MNC's have become so powerful that they are now beyond the capacity of the government to control them.

On discussion, the student chose the structure so - that, which is practised by the following exercise based on authentic citations:

Match the following half-sentences. The first match is A- H ('Aspirin is so familiar that many doctors and patients still don't fully recognise its importance.'). Can you find the others?

A	Aspirin is so familiar that	A	they caught fire due to friction
B	The predictions are so vague that	B	many are on the verge of giving up.
C	Morale among teachers is so low that	C	he uses a stepladder to paint them.
D	'Big Science' is now so expensive that	D	nothing can escape it, not even light.
E	Human society is now so complex that	E	governments can no longer shoulder the cost alone.
F	Windmills turned so fast in the wind that	F	prudent Warsavians don't drink tap-water even when it's boiled
G	The mass of brown dwarfs is so small that	G	you can make them fit almost any explanation you care to devise.
H	Heavy-metal pollution in the Vistula is so bad that	H	many doctors and patients still don't fully recognise its importance.
I	A black hole is a collapsed star whose gravity is so great that	I	what students need is to be taught the ''how'' rather than the ''what'' of information.
J	Over the years he has produced a series of canvases so large that	J	they never get hot enough to burn hydrogen in their cores, and never become fully fledged stars.

Too v. So