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Read the following sentence and identify the segment that contains a grammatical error. If there is no error, choose 'No error'.Scarcely had the minister stepped into the conference hall than the delegates raised a storm of protest regarding the new policy.
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The error lies in segment (c). The correlative conjunction 'scarcely' (and 'hardly') must always be followed by 'when' or 'before', never by 'than'. The word 'than' is used correctly only with comparative adjectives or with the conjunction 'no sooner'. Therefore, 'than the delegates' should be replaced with 'when the delegates'. To learn more about how words connect in syntax, you can read about Wikipedia Reference.
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