“Por más que lo intente”, “a fin de que sepas”
CEFR C1
“Si hubiera sabido…”: the past that did not happenThe unreal past: “si hubiera sabido, habría venido”, and the mixed conditions where one…What you can say to whomTelling apart what belongs in a message to a friend, in an email to a stranger and in a…“Por” and “para”, the hard halfThe pairs where both are possible and the meaning changes: “estar por” against “estar…“Ponerse”, “volverse”, “hacerse”, “quedarse”: four “become”Choosing among the four: “ponerse” for a passing state, “volverse” for a lasting change…What people write and what people sayWhat changes between the two: the “ser” passive, “cuyo”, the tenses that survive only in…“Me alegro DE que” but “pienso QUE”Deciding whether a verb or an expression needs “de” in front of “que”: “me acuerdo de…The rule, in three lines
Some conjunctions ALWAYS take the subjunctive: para que, a fin de que, sin que, antes de que, con tal de que, a menos que. And por más que and por mucho que take it whenever the concession is not a settled fact.
The usual slip. Using an infinitive after para que, which happens when the two subjects get forgotten: para que ir.
Why it catches you out. English uses an infinitive of purpose —“so that you know”, or just “to know”— and Spanish splits it by subject: same subject, “para” + infinitive; different subjects, “para que” + subjunctive. It is the same test you learnt at B1, now with six more conjunctions attached to it.