so (much)
that much
like that
Structure
- そんなに + Verb
- そんなに + いAdj
- そんなに + なAdj
I think the そんなに here is referring to the 多, rather than the 宿題.
If you have as much homework as that, …
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Hey @Aythreuk (and really sorry for the late answer!)
Like @Pep95 (by the way, great answer!) says, it modifies 多かったら、I have added this piece of information to the nuance so that future learners won’t be troubled over it!
By the way, you can also use そんな, which would modify 宿題、but the meaning would be slightly different.
そんなに宿題が多いのなら、今すぐはじめたほうがいい。
If you have that much homework, it would be better to start now.
そんな宿題が多いのなら、今すぐはじめたほうがいい。
If you have a lot of such homework, it would be better to start now.
(I think it sounds better with 多いのなら)
Cheers!
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This view sentence has be confused:
そんなに日本に行きたいなら、行って来たら？
If you want to go to Japan that much, why don’t you?
The [～たら] at the very end I read as a conditional taught in
an earlier lesson. How is this interpreted as ‘why don’t you’?
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@deltacat3 Hey! You have every right to be confused. This is actually the contracted たらどう from Lesson 9 (a later lesson). たらどう means “why don’t you…?” and is used for giving advice or suggesting something. We will get that sentence rewritten. I apologize for the confusion. Cheers!
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Thanks a bunch for clearing this up <3
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Hey 
We have added information about this contraction in the たらどう grammar point, thank you for asking this question!
Cheers,
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