Question

Combine the sentences correctly using 'so...that':-
There was much noise. I couldn't hear the speech.
A. There was much noise so that I couldn't hear the speech.
B. There was much noise so I couldn't hear that the speech.
C. So much noise there was that I couldn't hear the speech.
D. There was so much noise that I couldn't hear the speech.

Answer 1

Hint:The intention or explanation in English can be expressed in various ways. "So That" is one of them. As a conjunction, we use "so + that" to introduce reason and explanation clauses.
We may say “so..that” is used to justify why an action is performed.

Complete answer:
The provided sentence does not concentrate on intent, but the outcome, where "so" emphasises "a lot of noise" and produces the "could not hear the speech" effect, can be seen in option D, so it is correct.
Lets see options :-
Option A :- ‘so that’ is used in a way that It changed the context of the expression, making it concentrate on intent, the phrase means that noise was created for the purpose that the speaker does not hear, which is not reasonable, so A is incorrect.
Option B :- this sentence is grammatically incorrect thus this option is wrong.
Option C :- this option sounds poetic because of ‘so much noise there was’ and is grammatically incorrect too thus this option is wrong too.
Option D :- The provided sentence does not concentrate on intent, but the outcome, where "so" emphasises "a lot of noise" and produces the "could not hear the speech" effect, can be seen in option D, so it is correct.

Hence the correct answer is option D.

Note:"So that" is a conjunction used to join two clauses together. (One of them conveys an action, the other conveys the intent)
"so that" is used before the purpose-indicating clause.
"In general, the clause after "so that" contains a modal.