The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
Hard had she / thrown the basketball / when it fell / on the ground.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. Hard had she.
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The correct structure should be "Hardly had she" instead of "Hard had she.
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The word "hardly" is used to indicate that something happened almost immediately before something else, often followed by an inversion in the sentence structure, such as "Hardly had she thrown the basketball when it fell on the ground."
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So the corrected sentence is: "Hardly had she thrown the basketball when it fell on the ground."
- Therefore, the grammatical error segment is "Hard had she".