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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


Team Careers360 7th Jan, 2024
Answer (1)
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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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