Multiple choice

Directions: Look at the underlined part of the sentence. Below the sentence three possible substitutions for the underlined part are given. If one of the possible substitutions is better than the underlined part, indicate it as your answer. If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (4) as your answer.

Scarcely did the game started, when the rain came pouring down.

  1. had the game

  2. the game had

  3. were the game

  4. No improvement needed
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Case of past perfect tense. Whenever two incidents in the past happen in a sequence, we use 'had' with the former one. Moreover, in this sentence 'did' is inappropriate as 'did' is always followed by 'first form of the verb', but here 'started' is used, which is the second form of verb.

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