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that
1. Connecting noun clause (as involving reported speech etc.); introducing a subordinate noun clause.
He told me that the book is a good read.
2. (archaic) Introducing a hypothetical fact or supposition: ‘given that’, ‘as would appear from the fact that’.
* 1623, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors:
What, are you mad, that you doe reason so?
3. With antecedent so or such: introducing the result of the main clause.
* 2008, Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 23 May 2008:
My dad apparently always said that no child of his would ever be harassed for its poor eating habits, and then I arrived, and I was so disgusting that he revised his opinion.
4. Without any antecedent: so that.
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