CDS 2016 PYQ with Answer — Hardly have we got into the forest when it began to rain.

2016 · Q9

Hardly have we got into the forest when it began to rain.

EnglishSentence Improvement

AHardly we got
BWe had hardly got
CWe had got hard
DNo improvement

Explanation

The 'hardly...when' construction normally takes the past perfect with inversion ('Hardly had we got... when...'), which is not among the options. Of the choices given, B — 'We had hardly got into the forest when it began to rain' — is the only grammatical one, correctly using the past perfect. A lacks inversion, and C's 'hard' is an adverb misuse. Hence the answer is B.