Learn English – ‘that soon’ instead of ‘how soon’ is correct

adjectives

I know about this expression: "it's not that bad!" It means it's not too bad.

Now my question is: can we used 'that' before other adjectives or adverbs?
I want to use it in the following sentence:

In the train, everyone slept early at night but I didn't use to sleep that soon.

Please, tell me is that correct?

Best Answer

This is one of the basic meanings of 'that':

that adverb /ðæt/ B2. as much as suggested

Thus, one would say something like

On the train everyone went to bed around 20:00, but I wasn't used to sleeping that early.

That (and this), so, and how can all be used as adverbs of degree, but only that or so would be used here; how is typically used when the degree is unknown, e.g. I didn't know how early we would sleep.

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