Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions
Question:
They finished one project. They started working on the next.
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A.
Only if they had they finished one project did they start working on the next. -
B.
Hardly had they finished one project when they started working on the next. -
C.
Had they finished one project, they would have started working on the next. -
D.
Not until they started working on the next project did they finish the previous one.
Reference explanation:
Correct answer: GET
Knowledge: Inversion
Explain:
Only if S + V, V(assistant) + S + V(main): only if, if
Hardly + had + S + Ved/ V3 when S + Ved/ V2: Just now… then…
Had + S + Ved/ V3, S + would have Ved/ V3 => conditional sentence type 3 (assume the opposite of the past)
Not until S + V + did + S + V(main): Until… then
They completed a project. They started working on the next project.
= B. They had just finished a project when they started working on the next one.
A. Only if they have completed one project do they start working on the next one. => wrong in meaning
C. If they have completed one project, they will start working on the next project. => wrong in meaning
D. It is not until they start working on the next project that they complete the previous project. => wrong in meaning
Select REMOVE
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