English » Spotting Errors

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.

A

than the boss called them

B

No error

C

half of the work

D

They had hardly completed

Solution

option A is the right answer here ,

than the boss called him should be replaced with 'when the boss called him'

scarcely/hardly..........when is the correct pair

no sooner.....than is the correct pair