Direction: In the following questions, some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is No error, the answer is (4).
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- Scarcely did I reach the airport,
- nervous and tense, than the plane took off,
- leaving me stranded in an alien place.
- No error
Correct Option: B
when will replace than because.
scarcely, hardly, barely are followed by when Look at the examples given below :
We had scarcely sat down at the table, when the phone rang.
The sentence can also be written like this –
Scarcely had we sat down at the table, when the phone rang.
Hence, nervous and tense, when the plane took off is the right usage
