• The practice of segregation was so discriminatory that the federal government got involved.
    • The black citizens in the south were treated so unjustly that many joined local movements at great personal sacrifice.
    • The police were such racists that no black person had any real protection under the law.

Practice:
Read the pairs of sentences and then join them with a result clause, using so...that. Hit the Tab or Enter key to check your answer. Green is correct; red, incorrect. If you can't do the combination, type a question mark in the frame.Then hit Enter.

1. Segregation was entrenched strongly established so not likely to change in the south. Most southerners never questioned it.



2. Emmett Till was unacquainted with southern culture. He never realized he could get himself into serious trouble.



3. The murder of Emmett Till was malicious. It awakened blacks and whites to the atrocities horrible crimescommitted by white supremacistsPeople who believed the white race was superior. .



4. Emmett Till's face was beaten brutally. He was unrecognizable.



5. The judge was prejudiced. He told the jury he knew that every Anglo-Saxon refers to the white race one of them had the courage to set the accused free.



6. The verdict was outrageous. It galvanized shocked or surprised people so much that they took action against segregation movements around the country to press for an end to segregation.



7. Emmett Till's body and face were mutilated. His mother fainted at the sight of him.



Please Note: When the conjunction is so that with no adjective or adverb between the two words, the clause expresses purpose.

Examples:

Emmett Till's mother insisted on an open casket funeral so that the world could see what they did to her boy.

The black press camped out in front of the courthouse during the trial so that news of this miscarriage of justice A situation in which an accused person is wrongly punished or wrongly acquitted by a jury. In the Till case, the murderers were wrongly acquitted or set free. would be broadcast nationwide.