WBCS.LIVE practice question

Choose the right option to rewrite the sentence: No sooner ________ the sun risen than the fog disappeared.

Solve this multiple-choice question and check the correct answer with its explanation below.

Answer options

  1. did
  2. has
  3. had
  4. was

Correct answer and explanation

Correct answer: had

Explanation: ▪️The structure with No sooner … than always takes the past perfect tense in the first clause and the simple past tense in the second clause. ▪️Pattern: No sooner + had + subject + past participle … than + past tense. did ❌ → Wrong, because No sooner does not use did; it needs had with past participle. has ❌ → Wrong, because has shows present perfect, but the sentence is in past context. had ✅ → Correct, follows the rule: No sooner had the sun risen than the fog disappeared. was ❌ → Incorrect usage, verb does not fit the required structure.