{"id":73432,"date":"2020-03-24T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73432"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:27:46","slug":"so-that-vs-in-order-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/so-that-vs-in-order-that\/","title":{"rendered":"So That vs. In Order That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These structures are used to talk about purpose.\u00a0<b>So that<\/b>\u00a0is more common in informal speech and writing. Both these expressions are normally followed by modal auxiliary verbs such as\u00a0<b>can<\/b>\u00a0or<b>\u00a0will<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I waited for an hour\u00a0<b>so that\u00a0<\/b>I could meet him.<\/li>\n<li>She is staying here for six months\u00a0<b>in order that\u00a0<\/b>she can perfect her English.<\/li>\n<li>I started early\u00a0<b>so that\/in order that<\/b>\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t be late.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an informal style,\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0can be dropped after\u00a0<b>so<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have come early\u00a0<b>so<\/b>\u00a0(that) I can talk to you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tenses<\/h3>\n<p>Present tenses are sometimes used to refer to the future after\u00a0<b>so that\/in order that<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Send the letter today itself\u00a0<b>so that<\/b>\u00a0she\u00a0<b>gets\/will get<\/b>\u00a0it before Friday.<\/li>\n<li>I am going to make an early start<b>\u00a0so that\u00a0<\/b>I\u00a0<b>don\u2019t\/won\u2019t<\/b>\u00a0get stuck in the traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These structures are used to talk about purpose.\u00a0So that\u00a0is more common in informal speech and writing. Both these expressions are normally followed by modal auxiliary verbs such as\u00a0can\u00a0or\u00a0will. I waited for an hour\u00a0so that\u00a0I&#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":[251],"tags":[2252,357,2254,2253],"class_list":["post-73432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-in-order-that","tag-so-that","tag-so-that-or-in-order-that","tag-so-that-vs-in-order-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73432","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=73432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73433,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73432\/revisions\/73433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}