Jul 31, 2015 17:12
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A. She worked so that she can earned twice as much as she used to earned.
So emphasizes the degree or amount of something, then it should mean she worked very hard so that she succeed to earn twice as much as she used to earn.
B. She worked such that she can earned twice as much as she u...
Not the best answer in the world, but I think it's in the right direction.
Strangely, enough. Though "so that" and "such that" don't mean exactly the same thing (I read "so that" as about "in order that", and "such that" as about "in such a manner/way that"), I think replacing "so that" with "such that" works most of the times.
Many speakers seem not to accept this use (of "such that" in the place of "so that"):
> Sorry, you are wrong. It should be "Set up the bottles so that they are in a straight line". "Such that" would be totally wrong here.
From Rebecca Mayer - English language teacher and author of grammar books.
I would use so that too, but does Set up the bottles such that they are in a straight line really wrong?
Here is a definition of such that given by Collins English Dictionary:
such that: so that: used to express purpose or result ⇒
power such that it was effortless
There, such that means so that!
A little below that definition, there are three examples. Two are a different kind of such that (I think replacing it with so that doesn't work in these examples).
> But the state of my health is such that a return to Ancelstierre seems prudent, away from this inclement air.
Garth Nix LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR (2001)
> The level of absurdity is such that nothing can be believed, or is believed any more, except the old reliables.
Robert Wilson THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS (2002)
The third is more interesting:
> The strongest belief will always win, but doubts can water down any belief such that it isn't very effective.
Anita Anderson SUMMER OF SECRETS (2003)
It seems like so that works in this third sentence, too.
Still, I agree that I'd recommend this in academic writing: just stick with so that when you mean "in order to", "for the purpose of", etc.
This article (which is a great read) seems to say the same thing, but in more details:
> "such that" is used in the modification of nouns. It is usually used to mean something like ``of a type that":
> (4) During the experiments, a thick layer of insulating material was wrapped around the tube in a manner such that the loss of heat to the external environment was minimized.
> In the above sentence, it is important to note that "such that..." does not modify "wrapped." This is a common misconception, and it results in some very strange sentences, such as the following:
> (5*) In our preliminary study, we ignored the convection term such that we could easily determine the behavior in the small γ regime.
> Here, the intended meaning is that this term was ignored to allow for determination of the behavior in question, but since grammatically "such that..." modifies "term," the actual meaning of the sentence is quite strange. The simplest way to fix this sentence is to replace "such that" by "so that." If this is done, the phrase "so that we..." acts correctly as an adverb, modifying "ignored."
But I'd keep my opinion open on such that.
Because if I said that such that for so that is always wrong, I would have to say that Anita Anderson's sentence above is wrong too.
> The strongest belief will always win, but doubts can water down any belief such that it isn't very effective.
