Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Scarcely had my mother left the room_______the children started making noise.
A. Then
B. Than
C. When
D. That
Sol:
Option c is the most appropriate word to fill the blank here, ‘when’ is used with ‘scarcely/hardly’ and ‘than’ is used with ‘no sooner’, and inversion is used in all these cases.
