Identify the correct version of the given sentence:No sooner she left ...
Conjunctions are words that link other words, phrases, or clauses together.
The structure no sooner is used to talk about something that happens immediately after something else. When no sooner comes at the beginning of a sentence, we use inverted word order. That means the auxiliary verb comes before the subject. The conjunction 'No sooner — than' is also used to denote simultaneous actions. The given sentence depicts that as soon as she left the room, her baby started to cry immediately. These two activities take place almost simultaneously. There is no real-time difference between them. Thus Option B is correct. Option D, as well as Option C, can be ruled out as Then' indicates 'in that case'. We use 'then' with 'if to talk about cause and effect but it cannot be used in association with 'no sooner' which is used in case of an event happening immediately after something else. When no sooner is used in the front position, we invert the order of the auxiliary verb and subject. Option A is incorrect as the auxiliary verb 'had' is missing after no sooner.
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Identify the correct version of the given sentence:No sooner she left ...
The correct version of the given sentence is option 'B', which is "No sooner had she left the room than her baby started to cry." This is because the sentence is a complex sentence with two clauses - the main clause and the subordinate clause, and the two clauses need to be connected with a conjunction and a verb.
Explanation:
- The given sentence has two clauses - "No sooner she left the room" and "her baby started to cry".
- The first clause is a subordinate clause that functions as an adverbial clause of time, indicating that an event happened immediately after another event.
- In such constructions, we use the correlative conjunction "no sooner...than" to connect the two clauses. This means that we need to add the word "than" after the first clause.
- The second clause is the main clause that describes the event that took place after the first clause.
- However, the first clause is in the simple past tense, and we need to use the past perfect tense to show that the event in the first clause happened before the event in the second clause.
- Therefore, we need to add the auxiliary verb "had" before the subject "she" in the first clause to make it past perfect tense.
- Thus, the correct version of the sentence is "No sooner had she left the room than her baby started to cry."
In summary, the correct version of the given sentence is option 'B', which is "No sooner had she left the room than her baby started to cry." This version uses the correlative conjunction "no sooner...than" to connect the two clauses, and the past perfect tense to show the sequence of events.
Identify the correct version of the given sentence:No sooner she left ...
Here, the correct version of the given sentence is – No sooner had she left the room than her baby started to cry. So, the correct answer is “Option b”. Note: Pay attention to the minor difference between 'than' and 'then'.
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