Question : Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, select ‘No
error’.
Scarcely had he took the medicine when his headache was gone.
Option 1: When his headache was gone
Option 2: No error
Option 3: Took the medicine
Option 4: Scarcely had he
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Correct Answer: Took the medicine
Solution : The third option is correct.
- Replace took with taken to make the sentence correct.
- The given sentence is in the past perfect simple tense. We always use the third form of the verb in such sentences.
- The past perfect tense in English is composed of two parts: the past tense of the verb to have (had) + the past participle of the main verb .
- Scarcely...when is used to say that something happens immediately after something else.
Therefore, the correct sentence would be: Scarcely had he taken the medicine when his headache was gone.
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