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Read the following sentences in which a portion is underlined or presented as a segment to be improved. Choose the most effective replacement to make the sentence grammatically correct, stylistically polished, and coherent."Hardly had the Chancellor finished his opening address than the journalists began firing a barrage of probing questions regarding the impending economic reforms."Which option best replaces the incorrect segment in the sentence?
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Detailed Explanation
The correct option is (b). The adverb 'hardly' (and similarly 'scarcely') must always be followed by the correlative conjunction 'when' (or 'before') to denote an action happening immediately after another, not 'than' (which is exclusively used with 'no sooner'). Furthermore, the inversion 'Had the Chancellor finished' (auxiliary verb before the subject) is already correct for clauses starting with a negative adverb of time. To understand more about the structural nuances of correlative pairings, you can read about Conjunctions in English grammar on Wikipedia.
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