The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain a grammatical error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
They had hardly completed / half of the work / than the boss called them.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. than the boss called them
- The error lies in the third part of the given sentence.
- 'Hardly/scarcely' is always followed by 'when'.
- Thus, 'than the boss called them' will be replaced by 'when the boss called them.'
The correct sentence:
They had hardly completed half of the work when the boss called them.