{"id":1678,"date":"2016-11-30T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2016-11-30T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T16:28:57","slug":"so-that-and-in-order-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/so-that-and-in-order-that\/","title":{"rendered":"So that and in order that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These structures are used to talk about purpose. <strong>So that<\/strong> is more common in an informal style.<\/p>\n<p>The modal auxiliary verbs <strong>can, will and may<\/strong> are common in clauses introduced by<strong> so that<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In sentences about the past, <strong>would, could and might<\/strong> are used.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I waited <strong>so that<\/strong> I could meet him. (Here so that indicates the purpose of the action mentioned in the main clause.)<\/li>\n<li>She is staying here for another six months <strong>so that<\/strong> she can complete her research.<\/li>\n<li>He is learning English <strong>so that<\/strong> he can find a better job.<\/li>\n<li>I am catching the morning flight <strong>so that<\/strong> I will reach Singapore before noon.<\/li>\n<li>I have come early<strong> so that<\/strong> I can talk to you.<\/li>\n<li>I am going to start early <strong>so that \/ in order that<\/strong> I will not get stuck in the traffic.<\/li>\n<li>They took the child to America<strong> so that<\/strong> she would get the best medical care.<\/li>\n<li>They held the party on a Sunday<strong> so that \/ in order that<\/strong> everybody would be able to attend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These structures are used to talk about purpose. So that is more common in an informal style. The modal auxiliary verbs can, will and may are common in clauses introduced by so that. In&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[357],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-so-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}