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.
than the boss called them
No error
half of the work
They had hardly completed
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