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Option 1 : Scarcely had the forensic team arrived at the scene when
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सही उत्तर Scarcely had the forensic team arrived at the scene when है।
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Choose the most appropriate improvement for the sentence: "Scarcely the forensic team had arrived at the scene than the power supply was restored."
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Scarcely had the forensic team arrived at the scene when
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Scarcely the forensic team had arrived at the scene when
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The forensic team had scarcely arrived at the scene than
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No improvement
Correct Answer: Scarcely had the forensic team arrived at the scene when
"Scarcely" at the start of a clause requires inversion (auxiliary before subject) and pairs with "when", not "than". Option (b) is the trap: it fixes "than" to "when" but keeps the non-inverted word order.
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