Read the sentence: 'Hardly had the invigilator distributed the examination booklets _____ the power outage occurred.' Which conjunction correctly completes the correlative pair?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. the word 'when'
- Step 1: Correlative conjunction pair: 'Hardly... when' or 'Scarcely... when'. Step 2. 'No sooner... than' uses 'than', but 'Hardly' strictly requires 'when'. Answer: when. Why not the others: 'than' pairs with 'no sooner'; 'then' and 'before' violate the standard correlative rule.
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