683 - ‘So’ and ‘So That’: What Type of Conjunction Are They?

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Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	Gramer Girl here, I'm Manion Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to
0:08.8	the English language, writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.
0:13.0	Today I have a big meaty podcast about the conjunction so and how to tell what role it's
0:18.6	playing in the sentence.
0:22.8	Today's question comes from Matt Mullin, a teacher I met a few years ago at the National
0:27.3	Council for Teachers of English Convention.
0:30.4	He writes, quote, I struggled to provide students with any explanation for the difference between
0:35.9	so used as a coordinating conjunction and so when it's really so that in disguise, unquote.
0:44.7	This really is a tricky ball of twine to unroll.
0:47.8	We even touched on the topic of whether so is a coordinating conjunction in episode 424
0:53.9	or the weird coordinating conjunctions yet 4 and so.
0:58.5	We didn't perceive the matter too far in that episode but you better believe we're going
1:02.5	to in this one.
1:04.1	To understand Matt's question, let's think about two sentences that on the surface are
1:09.0	a lot of like.
1:11.1	One is, Kim put a pillow on top of the empty box so no cats would get into it.
1:18.4	The other one is, Kim put a pillow on top of the empty box so no cats got into it.
1:25.1	The words are exactly the same except that where one of them has wood get, the other one
1:32.0	has the verb got.
1:34.4	Let's take a closer look at the first sentence.
1:37.2	Kim put a pillow on top of the empty box so no cats would get into it.
1:43.5	The clause that begins with so expresses Kim's purpose.
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