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Wangqh2696122 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Be excited that- or: be excited when-

Peter was so excited _______he received an invitation from his friend to visit Chongqing.





A. that B. when



The suggested answer is A. Can we choose B here?

  

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Neither one makes sense.

Suppose you use "that". Peter was so excited that ... suggests that being excited will lead to a certain result, namely, being invited to visit someone. I don't know of a single case in my own life where I was excited to such a degree that the result was an invitation to visit a friend. Such a result is not a reasonable result of being excited.
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When 'so' means 'very' in informal speech, both are fine.
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Dear CJ,



I have two questions for you:



1) Do you mean that so must have its corresponding that? In my dictionary, there is such an example:



Last time I saw him he was so fat!



2)Are the following sentences correct?



A) I
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CalifJimNeither one makes sense.

Suppose you use "that". Peter was so excited that ... suggests that being excited will lead to a certain result
I agree with CJ, the sentence some how seemed incomplete and has a dangling feel to it.
" Peter was so excited (with or by something) /
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wangqh26961221) Do you mean that so must have its corresponding that?
No. It just seemed to me that it needed a that the first time I read your sentence. And the answer was supposed to be that, so I associated so with that. The reading that Mr. M. sees there does not associate so with that in the same way as I did.
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