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Choose the option that best transforms the given sentence as directed: Being occupied with important matters, he had no time to meet us.
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Choose the option that best transforms the given sentence as directed:
Being occupied with important matters, he had no time to meet us.

A.

He was so occupied with important matters that he had no time to meet us.

B.

He was much occupied with important matter so only he had no time to meet us.

C.

Being occupied with important matters, we had no time to meet him.

D.

Important matters occupied him so that he could not see us.

Correct option is A


The correct transformation of the given sentence is (a) He was so occupied with important matters that he had no time to meet us.
The original sentence implies a cause-and-effect relationship: Because he was occupied with important matters, he couldn't meet us. Option (a) correctly maintains this meaning using the structure " so...that," which is commonly used to express cause and effect.
Grammatical rule used: The " so...that" construction is used to show the degree or extent of something leading to a specific result.
Explanation of the grammatical rule in Hindi: "so...that" का प्रयोग किसी कार्य के कारण और उसके परिणाम को दर्शाने के लिए किया जाता है।
Example: She was so tired that she fell asleep immediately.

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