Question

Fill in the blank with appropriate words.
Don’t touch anything. Leave everything ______ it is.
A. Likes
B. So
C. Like
D. As

Answer 1

Hint:Conjunction is a part of speech in grammar that links words, phrases, or clauses called conjuncts of conjunctions. For conjunctions joining sentences, the word discourse marker is mostly used.

Complete answer:
 Conjunctions help us to construct complex, elegant sentences and prevent several short sentences from being repetitive. A given word can have multiple senses in English that depends on the sentence’s syntax, being either a conjunction or preposition such as, "after" in "he left after the war," after is a preposition whereas a conjunction in "he left after they fought". A conjunction is, in general, an invariable (non-inflected) grammatical particle and may or may not stand between the conjoined objects.

In a sentence, coordinating conjunctions allows you to join words, phrases , and clauses of equal grammatical rank. For, but, and, so, nor, or, and yet are the coordinating conjunctions that are most commonly used. Conjunctions that operate together are correlative conjunctions. Some instances are either/or, not only/but also and neither/nor. Independent and subordinate clauses are joined by subordinating conjunctions. Subordinate conjunction can signal a relationship of cause and effect, a contrast, or some other form of relationship between the clauses. Since, as, while, though, and whereas, are common subordinating conjunctions.

For the conjunction here, option D is right, connecting the two clauses of the sentence. If used as a conjunction,' as' is used to denote the way something occurs or is performed in contrast. 'As' in this sentence applies to leaving the objects in their original way. So, 'as' is going to be used here. It is not possible to use option A since the sentence does not require a verb. Option B cannot be used to imply effect, intent, addition, degree, agreement or confirmation as 'so' is used. Therefore, the use of 'so' does not fulfil the necessity of the sentence to connect its two clauses. As 'like' is used to display contrast, option C can not be used and this is also not the need for this expression.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘D’
Note:Always read the question thoroughly to get the correct answer. Here, you should not find any difficulty. If there is any issue in understanding, always refer to a grammar book rather than being in probability.