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Old 16-Mar-2007, 15:22
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Default Re: Because + so ?

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In what sense? What's it modifying?
"Because it is going to rain, so we had better leave early."

Although "so" is redundant, the complex sentence is at least grammatically correct, because two simple sentences are linked by one conjunction "because" and "so" can act as an adverb.
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