Question

Combine the sentences correctly using ‘so....that'
It was bright. It hurt my eyes.
a) It was bright so that it hurt my eyes.
b) It was so bright that it hurt my eyes.
c) It was that bright so it hurt my eyes.
d) So bright it was that it hurt my eyes.

Answer 1

Hint: ‘So...that' is a conjunction which is a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause (e.g. and, but, if ).

Complete answer:
 In grammar, the conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions. The term discourse marker is mostly used for conjunctions joining sentences. Here, “So that” is used as a subordinate clause to show purpose or to give an explanation. It is used to show an action producing an intended result of a cause producing an effect.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer-
Option ‘a’ – in this, ‘so that’ focuses on purpose, and changes the meaning of the sentence to ‘it was bright for the reason that it could hurt my eyes’, which isn’t what the original sentence means, so it is an incorrect option.
Option ‘b’ – The given sentence does not focus on purpose, but the result, where ‘so’ refers to the adjective ‘bright’ and ‘that’ refers to the result of it being bright “it hurt my eyes”. So, it is the correct option.
Option ‘c' – here, the order of ‘so...that’ has been altered, where ‘that’ refers to the adjective ‘bright’ and functions as a demonstrative, but in the construction ‘so...that’, it’s supposed to refer to the result, which is incorrect.
Option ‘d’ – here, ‘so bright it was’ is incorrect in terms of the order, where the adjective ‘bright’ precedes the subject ‘it’. Sentences with ‘so...that’ do not begin with ‘so’. So, it is also an incorrect option. Hence, option ‘b’ is the correct option.

Note:
 Correlative conjunctions are words in pairs that connect two sentences, but they’re not written together, for example, either...or, but...and, such...that, etc, where a word or a phrase is in between the pair.