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Option 3 : had

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सही उत्तर had है।

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Question:

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence: "Hardly ___ the assembly begun when the rain started."

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has
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did
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had
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does

Correct Answer: had

The "hardly/scarcely ... when" construction requires the past perfect with inversion — "Hardly had ... begun". "Has" breaks the past sequence, and "did"/"does" cannot pair with the past participle "begun".

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