White and yellow

[tufguy]

Hi guys,

Please check this sentence "I brought some eggs. I put them inside the refrigerator. So that its white and yellow part would not get mingled.so that when I broke them I could seperate white and yellow part easily".

 

[2006]

Hi guys,

Please check these sentences.
"I brought some eggs, which I put inside the refrigerator so (that) their white and yellow parts would not get mixed when I break them and I could separate the white and yellow parts easily".

Now there is only one sentence.

 

[Raymott]

You possibly mean "I bought some eggs".
Buy - bought
Bring - brought

 

[emsr2d2]

They're called the "white" and the "yolk". And putting them in the refrigerator doesn't stop the two mixing together. They are naturally separate inside the egg. Many people accidentally "break the yolk" when they crack the egg but until then, the two are separate. It doesn't matter how you store them. It matters how you handle them when you're breaking/cracking them ready to prepare/eat them

 

[tufguy]

Why did you use "I break" instead of "I broke"?

 

[SoothingDave]

Why did you use "I break" instead of "I broke"?

"When I break them" is talking about a future or a habitual action.

 

[tufguy]

If we used "So that" before "I break", then what? As far as I know if we are depicting a past incident we have to use past in every condition like "would" for "will". Could you please give me one more example to clarify.

 

[SoothingDave]

I had placed them in the refrigerator so that when I broke them, they would separate easily.

 

[tufguy]

OK so if we use "so that" we have to use "Broke" and that doesn't change the meaning. And what about an example?

 

[SoothingDave]

No. Incorrect. You wanted an example speaking of the past, so I used "had placed them" in the fridge and "when I broke" them to indicate that the breaking was in the past and the placing in the fridge was before the breaking.

I could just as easily said "I place them in the fridge so that when I break them they will separate easily."

In that case I am speaking of habitual action (place them) and the future (when I break them).

 

[tufguy]

If I do not depict it as habitual action? and you are saying that we do not use past always while depecting past events?

 

[SoothingDave]

I gave you one example speaking of the past. I gave you another example speaking about habitual action.

If I say "I ate ice cream yesterday" it is a past action. It tells you only about yesterday.

If I say "I eat ice cream every day" it is talking about habit. Past, present and future. You can know from this that I ate ice cream yesterday. And the day before that. But I don't use the past tense when talking about habit.

Bottom line is what you want to say determines what tenses are chosen.

 

[tufguy]

OK I got you, if we are depicting a past incident and we want to say what we were going to do in the near future from that point of time then we have to use present instead of past. But I have a question now, why didn't you change "Could" to "Can". So that I can seprate them easily?

 

[tufguy]

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