Find the grammatically correct sentence from below options.
A.Scarcely he had arrived than the meeting started.
B.Scarcely he arrived when the meeting started.
C.Scarcely had he arrived when the meeting started.✓ Correct
D.Scarcely had he arrived than the meeting started.
Explanation
With negative adverbs like 'scarcely,' subject-auxiliary inversion is required, and 'scarcely...when' is the correct correlative pairing, making option A the only grammatically correct sentence.
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