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Choose the best replacement for the part in square brackets.
Scarcely had we left the hall [than] it began to rain.
Scarcely had we left the hall [than] it began to rain.
- A. than
- B. when
- C. then
- D. that
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Answer: (B) when
'Scarcely' and 'hardly' are followed by 'when', whereas 'no sooner' is followed by 'than'. This is a classic correlative pair tested often. 'Then' and 'that' do not complete the construction at all, so 'when' is the only choice that makes the sentence grammatically correct.
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