Standard English Primary 6 Grammar

Scarcely ________ the stadium when it began to pour with rain.

A we had reached
B we were reaching
C had we reached
D did we reached
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Step 1: Recognize that the sentence starts with the negative adverb 'Scarcely', which triggers subject-verb inversion. Step 2: Identify the standard correlative structure: 'Scarcely had (subject) (past participle) when...'. Step 3: Select the inverted past perfect form 'had we reached'.

Correct answer: had we reached

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