Question

Fill in the blanks with a suitable option:
The weather was ____________ bad ____________________we didn’t go to the seaside.
a)Such/then
b)Very/that
c)So/that
d)Too/that

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence is a complex sentence and the phrase of its simple form is expanded into a subordinate clause.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Option a is incorrect because the usage of ‘such’ and ‘then’ together in the given sentence is grammatically incorrect. So, option a is not the correct option.
Option b is also incorrect. The term ‘very’ describes something and is complete in itself. Along with the conjunction ‘that’, it would have been correct when used in the following way: The weather was very bad and so we didn’t go to the seaside.
Option c is the correct option. This is used to convert a simple sentence with ‘too…to’ into a complex sentence by using ‘so…that’. The simple sentence might be: ‘The weather was too bad to go to the seaside’ and thus the complex form of this sentence can be: ‘The weather was so bad that we didn’t go to the seaside’.
Option d is the incorrect option. The word ‘too’ is never used along with ‘that’ as it doesn’t conform with the rules of transformation of sentences and thus is grammatically incorrect.

Note: The sentence fulfills the conditions of the transformation of sentences from simple to complex like the sentence with ‘so…that’ always remain in negative and so is the case in the given sentence.