Question

_________ we reached the station, the train arrived. ( Fill in with an appropriate conjunction from the options).
(A) As well as
(B) As soon as
(C) While
(D) Since

Answer 1

Hint: We see that we need to fill what comes in the beginning of the sentence. To be specific, we are looking for a conjunction that can give us the right meaning of the sentence. We must not alter the original idea behind the sentence. For this we must use one of the options given below. The hint is that the option you choose must portray that both the subject and the train arrived at similar times, or nearly at the same time.

Complete answer:
Let us see what the sentence means first. It means that the train arrived almost the same time as the subject reached the railway station. So now we need to find the conjunction that best fits this meaning.

Now let us look into the given options:
For option (A) As well as; this is incorrect, it is a completely irrelevant option because ‘as well as’ is generally not used in the beginning of a sentence, so it can be omitted.
For option (B) As soon as; this is correct, as it portrays the right meaning which is that right when they reached the station the train also arrived. As soon as the train arrived, the people also reached there.
For option (C) while; it is incorrect, it is not suitable here since it is a grammatical error. ‘While’ does not suit with simple past ‘reached’, if the verb was ‘were reaching’ then it could have been suitable.
For option (D) since; it is incorrect because this grammatically does not make sense. ‘Since’ here means that from the time they reached the station the train arrived, but here ‘reached’ and ‘arrived’ are the same tense and ‘since’ indicates an earlier past so it cannot be used together.

So the correct option is option (B) i.e, As soon as we reached the station, the train arrived.

Note: Since we have used correlative conjunctions let us discuss a little about it. They are when the same sentence elements are combined (similar to nouns) with the help of certain conjunction words, that is a correlative conjunction. This always comes in two’s that is, it is made up of two separate words and used within the same sentence. Some examples look like this; Both-and, neither-nor, either-or, not only-but also, whether-or, and so on.