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Reading Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I have found this sentence:

I was in the service that I might have something to eat

Based on my limited knowledge of English, It seems to me that it should have to be like this: I was in the service so that I might have something to eat

Can the "so" be omitted? Both forms are correct?

Thanks in advance!

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I was in the service that I might have something to eat.

Yes, the so may be omitted. In contemporary English we would say: so that, but omission of it was common in literary writing at the time.

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