Such as and such…as are the same in meaning and can be used in many cases instead of each other but there are differences between them:
Similarities
They are used to introduce examples:
- ..careers such as/such careers as teaching, nursing, hairdressing and catering.
- ...delays such as/ delays caused by such things as bad weather or industrial disputes.
- On a day such as today/on such a day as today, it's hard to imagine that things will ever be normal again.
- Each member of the alliance agrees to take such actions as/ take actions such as it deems necessary, - Including the use of armed force...
- Children do not use inflections such as/such inflections as are used in mature adult speech...
Differences
You use such...as to introduce a reference to the person or thing that has just been mentioned.
- There have been previous attempts at coups. We regard such methods as entirely
unacceptable...
- There'd be no telling how John would react to such news as this.
We use such...as in formal style for emphasizing that something is not enough for a particular purpose:
- Such experience as I have is useless in this situation.
- Such changes as they made were minor and did not go far enough.
- Such food as they gave us was scarcely fit to eat.
- Such advice as he was given (= it was not very much) has proved almost worthless.
Note that in this sense it is synonymous with inadequate, insufficient, scant, meager, pitiful.
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