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Peter invited me home to dinner

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I am wondering if my sentences are grammatically correct. I am not sure if my second sentence is correct.

Peter invited me home to dinner. There was so much food; you would have thought it was Christmas.
 
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Delete the semicolon.
 
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"for dinner" also works.
 
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There was so much food (that) you would have thought it was Christmas.

"You would have thought it was Christmas" is a clause modifying "so much". The "that" is implied in your sentence.
 
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Depending on your culture, Christmas doesn't always equate an abundance of food. My family always has a lot of food for Thanksgiving but we go lighter on Christmas. In certain years when we just have our own family for Christmas we would only have ham and a few sides. Christmas to me is more associated with lots of toys rather than food.
 
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