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What is the difference between she studied hard so that she can pass the exam and she studied hard so that she could pass the exam ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between she studied hard so that she can pass the exam and she studied hard so that she could pass the exam ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Can is the past tense form of could. The first sentence reads that the exam is in the present while the second reads that it already happened. In everyday speech, nobody would correct you on either :)
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"๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํด์ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค"์ "๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํด์ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค"๋ผ๋ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์ ์์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
"๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํด์ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค"๋ ํ์ฌ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ, ๊ทธ๋
๊ฐ ์์ง ์ํ์ ๋ณด์ง ์์์ง๋ง ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ฉด์ "๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํด์ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค"๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ, ๊ทธ๋
๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ํ์ ๋ณด์๊ฑฐ๋ ์ํ์ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋
ธ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ๋
๋๋ค.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด,
- She studied hard so that she can pass the exam. (๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค - ์์ง ์ํ์ ๋ณด์ง ์์์ง๋ง ํต๊ณผํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค๋ ์๋ฏธ)
- She studied hard so that she could pass the exam. (๊ทธ๋
๋ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค - ์ด๋ฏธ ์ํ์ ๋ดค๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ ์ ์๋ฏธ)
"๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํด์ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค"๋ ํ์ฌ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ์์ง ์ํ์ ๋ณด์ง ์์์ง๋ง ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฐ๋ฉด์ "๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํด์ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๋ค"๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ํ์ ๋ณด์๊ฑฐ๋ ์ํ์ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ๋ ๋๋ค.
์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด,
- She studied hard so that she can pass the exam. (๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค - ์์ง ์ํ์ ๋ณด์ง ์์์ง๋ง ํต๊ณผํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค๋ ์๋ฏธ)
- She studied hard so that she could pass the exam. (๊ทธ๋ ๋ ์ํ์ ํต๊ณผํ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ด์ฌํ ๊ณต๋ถํ๋ค - ์ด๋ฏธ ์ํ์ ๋ดค๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ ์ ์๋ฏธ)

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