{"id":73430,"date":"2020-03-24T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73430"},"modified":"2020-03-24T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T10:26:08","slug":"the-conjunction-so-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-conjunction-so-that\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conjunction So&#8230;That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The correlative conjunction\u00a0<b>so\u2026that\u2026<\/b>\u00a0shows cause and effect.<\/p>\n<p>Study the following sentences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It rained very heavily. As a result, the town went under water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here the first sentence refers to the cause that leads to the effect mentioned in the second sentence.<\/p>\n<p>We can combine these two sentences using\u00a0<b>so\u2026that\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It rained\u00a0<b>so<\/b>\u00a0heavily\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0the town went under water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They arrived very late. They missed the first part of the show.<\/li>\n<li>They arrived\u00a0<b>so<\/b>\u00a0late\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0they missed the first part of the show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>She spoke very rudely. I felt like slapping her.<\/li>\n<li>She spoke\u00a0<b>so<\/b>\u00a0rudely\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0I felt like slapping her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The food was delicious. We enjoyed it heartily.<\/li>\n<li>The food was\u00a0<b>so\u00a0<\/b>delicious\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0we enjoyed it heartily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>He speaks very fast. I don\u2019t understand half of what he says.<\/li>\n<li>He speaks\u00a0<b>so\u00a0<\/b>fast\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0I don\u2019t understand half of what he says.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>He is very forgetful. Sometimes he doesn\u2019t remember his own phone number.<\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0<b>so\u00a0<\/b>forgetful\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0sometimes he doesn\u2019t remember his own phone number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The pain was unbearable. I couldn\u2019t sleep at all.<\/li>\n<li>The pain was\u00a0<b>so\u00a0<\/b>unbearable\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0I couldn\u2019t sleep at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>She was very beautiful. I couldn\u2019t take my eyes off her.<\/li>\n<li>She was\u00a0<b>so<\/b>\u00a0beautiful\u00a0<b>that<\/b>\u00a0I couldn\u2019t take my eyes off her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The correlative conjunction\u00a0so\u2026that\u2026\u00a0shows cause and effect. Study the following sentences. It rained very heavily. As a result, the town went under water. Here the first sentence refers to the cause that leads to the&#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":[251],"tags":[2251,357],"class_list":["post-73430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-conjunction-so-that","tag-so-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73430","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=73430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73431,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73430\/revisions\/73431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}