A sudden improvement in the weather has been a boon to

Question

A sudden improvement in the weather has been a boon to farmers in the south;  so plentiful has the rain been for growing crops that  farmers on the verge of bankruptcy have been able to save their farms. 


A. so plentiful has the rain been for growing crops that
B. rain has been so plentiful for growing crops, so that
C. the amount of rain for growing crops has been such that
D. such has the rain been plentiful for growing crops that
E. such has been plentiful the rain for growing crops that

u2lover · Answer

I say C

A and B have wrong idiom construction of beloved "so.. that" should be " SO  ADJECTIVE  THAT  CLAUSE"

E is kind of awkward

hey zoom you see in D "has plentiful been" is separated? thats another example that I mentioned

Futuristic · Answer

A is my choice

B in "so that", "so" is unnecessary
C does not say that the rain has been plentiful, change in meaning
D "such has the rain been plentiful" is awkward
E "such has been plentiful" is awkward

MA · Answer

A. inversion.

"so that" in A is preferred over "such that" in C/D/E. B has two "so".

if a question has ACs with "sentence inversion", be careful and focus on it.

u2lover · Answer

MA, can you please clarify what you mean by inversion? what are we inverting here?

shahnandan · Answer

went for A because of the so...that construction, also because the part of the sentence after the semi-colon stood as an independent clause.

MA · Answer

inversion is an alternative way to write the sentence. normally, a sentence would have the 'SUBJECT' preceding the 'VERB' as under: SUBJECT + VERB + (OBJECT/COMPLEMENT).

where as in inversion, we start sentence with verb and then subject as under: VERB + SUBJECT + (OBJECT/COMPLEMENT).

in our example, we are doing the second one for the first one as under:

i.   normal/regular expression:   the rain has been so plentiful for growing crops that farmers on the verge of bankruptcy have been able to save their farms. 

ii.   inversion:   so plentiful has the rain been for growing crops that farmers on the verge of bankruptcy have been able to save their farms.

buzzgaurav · Answer

A stands for correst 'so.....that' construction.
Great explaination of inversion MA.

b14kumar · Answer

It's straight A.
Good explanation MA.

Regards,
Brajesh

jaynayak · Answer

Will go with A.

So ....... that construction in A is correct.

sharadGmat · Answer

Good explanation.. I think inversion makes sense here because of the preceding sentence.. Using inversion, second part of the sentence acts as justification to first part of sentence .. If we use straight sentence here, we wouldn't be needing semicolon..

ps_dahiya · Answer

A

Rejected C, D and E because of "such that"
Rejected B because of "so......so that"
Selected A because of "so.....that"

Gauss · Answer

great sentence is A as mentioned the correct usage of subject verb inversion using the corret idiom so....that

A sudden improvement in the weather has been a boon to

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