{"id":1771,"date":"2017-01-22T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2017-01-22T16:58:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T16:58:01","slug":"combine-using-so-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/combine-using-so-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine using so&#8230;that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The subordinating conjunction <strong>so\u2026that\u2026<\/strong> is used to indicate result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Study the example given below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He looked very ill. I felt sorry for him.<\/p>\n<p>We can combine these two sentences into one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He looked so ill that I felt sorry for him.<\/p>\n<p>Here the first clause shows the cause and the second clause shows the effect\/result.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Exercise<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Make one sentence of each pair below.<\/p>\n<p>1. The teacher looked very angry. I was afraid.<\/p>\n<p>2. She was very tired. She could not resume the journey.<\/p>\n<p>3. I was very surprised. I could not speak.<\/p>\n<p>4. It rained very hard. We could not go out.<\/p>\n<p>5. He worked very hard. He fell ill.<\/p>\n<p>6. The children were very excited. They could not fall asleep.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>1. The teacher looked<strong> so angry that<\/strong> I was afraid.<\/p>\n<p>2. She was<strong> so tired that<\/strong> she could not resume the journey.<\/p>\n<p>3. I was<strong> so surprised that<\/strong> I could not speak.<\/p>\n<p>4. It rained <strong>so hard that<\/strong> we could not go out.<\/p>\n<p>5. He worked <strong>so hard that<\/strong> he fell ill.<\/p>\n<p>6. The children were <strong>so excited that<\/strong> they could not fall asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subordinating conjunction so\u2026that\u2026 is used to indicate result. Study the example given below. He looked very ill. I felt sorry for him. We can combine these two sentences into one. He looked so&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[357],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-so-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}