This blog will introduce a combination of hard-to-understand phrases to you, which will sophisticate your sentence structure in a good way as much as to discombobulate your audience. As you can see further on, these construction is mostly associated with negative sentences. These all practically mean the same thing; out of two cases stated in the sentence, one has more impact. Understanding which is tricky. Can you guess the meaning of quoted portion in the sentences given below? " I started my second course of online learning. However, that is NOT SO STRESSFUL AS MUCH AS EXCITING." "My friend is NOT SO HELPFUL AS MUCH AS ANNOYING." Let us cut to the chase! The first sentence means, it’s stressful, but the feeling of excitement is stronger than the feeling of stress. The second sentence means, My friend is more annoying than being helpful. These kinds of phrases/ constructions with nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  First let us look into 3 formats/ word orders for this