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NDA 2025 GAT · English · Spotting Errors · medium

(A) Hardly had the ship left the harbour (B) when a storm (C) broke out over the bay.

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Read the sentence in three parts, (A) to (C), and identify the part with a grammatical fault; if all parts are fine, pick 'No error'. (A) Hardly had the ship left the harbour (B) when a storm (C) broke out over the bay.
  1. A. (A)
  2. B. (B)
  3. C. (C)
  4. D. No error
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Answer: (D) No error

'Hardly had ... when' is the correct correlative pair, with inversion after 'Hardly'. 'Broke out' is the right phrasal verb for a storm. Every part is correct, so the answer is 'No error'. Changing 'when' to 'than' would be the mistaken correction.
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