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La2lura Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

So that you would/did

What's grammatical? -- "She invited him so that HE WOULD BRING her a present" OR "She invited him so that HE BROUGHT her a present."
  

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She invited him so [that] he would bring her a present. This means that the reason she invited him was to make him bring her a present. You can omit the "that" if you want.

— BarbaraPA

  • She invited him so [that] he would bring her a present.
  • This means that the reason she invited him was to make him bring her a present.
  • You can omit the "that" if you want.
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She invited him so [that] he would bring her a present.

This means that the reason she invited him was to make him bring her a present. You can omit the "that" if you want.
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Any time you use a so that clause to explain why some action was taken, to explain the intent of the action, use will (or some other modal verb with a present viewpoint) if the main clause is in the present, and use would (or some other modal verb with a past viewpoint) if the main clause is in the past.

Dora is setting the cake on the table so that
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