Timeline for So that vs that
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| Jun 4, 2019 at 22:21 | vote | accept | GKK | ||
| May 29, 2019 at 0:45 | comment | added | user96060 | Agree with @Mixolydian except I don't think you have to go back as far as Shakespeare. I can't think of any good examples where so could be omitted today. Sometimes you can just start a new clause, as in I should get there about 9 - see you then. | |
| May 28, 2019 at 23:56 | answer | added | David Siegel | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 23, 2019 at 22:02 | comment | added | Mixolydian | that as opposed to so that sounds old-fashioned to me in this context, possibly archaic - like English from Shakespeare’s time. I can’t find sources to back this up so I’ll hold off on answering for now. | |
| May 23, 2019 at 22:00 | comment | added | GKK | @userr2684291 I already know well that "that" can be omitted but I've never heard "so" can be omitted, so I'm asking just out of curiosity whether it can be possible, and on top of that, I seem to have heard such sentences in which "so" is omitted. | |
| May 23, 2019 at 21:58 | comment | added | user3395 | Are you sure it's so they omit, rather than that? Because the latter is far more likely (if not the standard variant right now – ldoceonline.com/dictionary/so-that puts it as so (that)). | |
| May 23, 2019 at 21:22 | history | asked | GKK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |