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- 03-Nov-2005, 17:59 #1
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what is the opposite of " in order to"? for example, i want to tide up my room and it is 9 pm so i say to my friend that i have to make the cleaning within 1 hour so that i dont bother the neighbours. what if i want to use " in order to" to connect those two sentence. " i have to finish cleaning within an hour in order not to disturb neighbours" or
" i have to finish cleaning within an hour in order to not disturb neighbours".
i have this kind of problem when constructing negative sentences, do you have some clues on this issue?
thank you very much.
- 04-Nov-2005, 02:20 #2
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Teacher Re: what is the opposite of " in order to"? I'd use 'in order not to' or 'so as not to'.
- 04-Nov-2005, 02:35 #3
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Threadstarter / Original Poster Re: what is the opposite of " in order to"? thank you so much tdol
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