Choose the correct option and rewrite the sentence according to the instruction given after each.
Rashmi was too late to hear the first speech. (Use: ...so...that...)
Topic: Transformation — 'so... that'
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(d) Rashmi was so late that she could not hear the first speech..
The transformation from "too... to" into "so... that" is a fixed pattern, examined almost every year: too + adjective + to + verb so + adjective + THAT + subject + COULD NOT + verb The NEGATIVE is essential: "too late to hear" means she did NOT hear, so the new sentence must say "could NOT hear".
Option (b) drops the negative and reverses the meaning — the commonest error in this question type. Option (a) omits the "that" clause altogether, so the construction is incomplete. Option (c) shifts into the present tense; a transformation changes the STRUCTURE, never the tense or the meaning.
Note the past-tense modal: because the original is past, "can" becomes "COULD not".
Rashmi was so late that she could not hear the first speech..