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Select the correct option: Hardly had the meeting begun ____ the power went out.

1. when
2. than
3. then
4. while

Correct answer: when

Solution

The correct correlative pair is 'hardly...when' to indicate that one event happened immediately after another. 'Than' is used with 'no sooner...than', not with 'hardly'.

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