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The following examples of conjunction reduction sound wrong to me; are they grammatically correct?

The meat is red, so is raw. [The meat is red, so it is raw.]

The fish is pink, so is a salmon. [The fish is pink, so it is a salmon.]

Maybe my discomfort comes from the proximity with this other "so" (adverb) construction:

The meat is red, so is the wine.

The fish is pink, so is the rose.

Aurel
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    Your first two examples are not correct. So here means therefore. In the second pair of sentences, so is X means X is the same. – Kate Bunting Mar 15 '21 at 12:09
  • @KateBunting Thanks, that's what I thought. But then what is the rule? Conjunction reduction doesn't apply to "so"? – Aurel Mar 15 '21 at 13:11
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    You could say "The meat is red, and so is raw", though it wouldn't be very idiomatic. Presumably we don't use so is on its own in this context because it could be confused with the other sense of so is. – Kate Bunting Mar 15 '21 at 14:38

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