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2 Jun 2014
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I don't understand the meaning of the following sentence with that "just so":
One young mother I know continued breastfeeding JUST SO her mother-in-law.
I don't understand the meaning of the following sentence with that "just so":
One young mother I know continued breastfeeding JUST SO her mother-in-law.
One young mother I know continued breastfeeding JUST SO her mother-in-law.
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It sounds like an incomplete sentence.
just so her mother-in-law . . . .
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I agree with jessenstein. In this sentence fragment it probably means ' in order to' - in Spanish I believe this would be ' solamente para...'
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