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Is this sentence correct? 'He was poor so that he couldn't buy a new car.' Is this sentence gramatically correct?

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No, it's not. There are two possible corrections, with slightly different meanings: 'He was so poor that he couldn't buy a new car.' 'He was poor so he couldn't buy a new car.' <- this one makes more sense, as you don't need to be very poor to be unable to buy a new car.
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He was so poor that he couldn't buy a new car.
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He was poor so he couldn´t buy a new car.

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