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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Usage of "that"
"So many people and merchants crowd the streets on the weekends that it takes ten times longer to get anywhere. The city made the streets pretty, but there is nothing being done to take care of them."
I have seen this passage in a news article and I do not know what the that functions as in the sentence I think that so is needed like...on the weekend so that it takes ten times... or is there another rule of that I have not noticed yet here?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual for great help.
I have seen this passage in a news article and I do not know what the that functions as in the sentence I think that so is needed like...on the weekend so that it takes ten times... or is there another rule of that I have not noticed yet here?
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual for great help.
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that the streets are very crowded I ate so much pizza that I can now speak Italian. In writing and formal speech, intensive 'so' is most often followed by a completing 'that' clause: Everything is so expensive that some families must struggle just to survive.
- that the streets are very crowded I ate so much pizza that I can now speak Italian.
- In writing and formal speech, intensive 'so' is most often followed by a completing 'that' clause: Everything is so expensive that some families must struggle just to survive.
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It is the standard 'so...that' structure:
So many people...that the streets are very crowded
I ate so much pizza that I can now speak Italian.
In writing and formal speech, intensive 'so' is most often followed by a completing 'that' clause: Everything is so expensive that some families must struggle just to survive.
So many people...that the streets are very crowded
I ate so much pizza that I can now speak Italian.
In writing and formal speech, intensive 'so' is most often followed by a completing 'that' clause: Everything is so expensive that some families must struggle just to survive.
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