{"id":73950,"date":"2020-04-13T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73950"},"modified":"2020-04-13T09:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:14:36","slug":"in-order-to-vs-so-as-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/in-order-to-vs-so-as-to\/","title":{"rendered":"In Order To vs. So As To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often use\u00a0<b>an infinitive<\/b>\u00a0to talk about a person\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He rose\u00a0<b>to speak.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>She came to the city<b>\u00a0to look<\/b>\u00a0for work.<\/li>\n<li>He sat down\u00a0<b>to rest.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can also use\u00a0<b>in order to<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>so as to<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She came to the city\u00a0<b>so as to look<\/b>\u00a0for work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>So as to<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>in order to<\/b>\u00a0are more common before verbs like\u00a0<b>be, have, know\u00a0<\/b>etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He raised his voice\u00a0<b>so as to be heard.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>He got up early<b>\u00a0in order to have<\/b>\u00a0enough time to pack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before a negative infinitive, we normally use\u00a0<b>so as\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0<b>in order.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am leaving now\u00a0<b>so as not to be late.\u00a0<\/b>(NOT I am leaving now not to be late.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often use\u00a0an infinitive\u00a0to talk about a person\u2019s purpose. He rose\u00a0to speak. She came to the city\u00a0to look\u00a0for work. He sat down\u00a0to rest. We can also use\u00a0in order to\u00a0or\u00a0so as to. She came to&#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":[2625,2626],"class_list":["post-73950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-in-order-to","tag-so-as-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73950","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=73950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73951,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73950\/revisions\/73951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}