Question : Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.

No sooner had I finished my final exam that my friends invited me to join them on a trip to Europe.

Option 1: then my friends invited

Option 2: than my friends invited

Option 3: that my friend invited

Option 4: when my friends invited


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Answer (1)
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Correct Answer: than my friends invited


Solution : The correct choice is the s econd option.

The given sentence has a grammatical error. The correct conjunction to use after "no sooner" is "than" and not "that". The conjunction "than" is used with "no sooner" to form a pair of correlative conjunctions to express the idea that one event happened immediately after another event.

Therefore, the correct sentence is: No sooner had I finished my final exam than my friends invited me to join them on a trip to Europe.

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