Discussion
Scarcely did Mohan step on the ladder _________.
Answer: C
The sentence is Scarcely did Mohan step on the ladder when it broke.
Scarcely and hardly pair with when (or before) to show that one event followed the other almost at once. When the sentence opens with scarcely, the subject and auxiliary are inverted (did Mohan step), and the second clause begins with when.
Than is the partner of no sooner, not of scarcely, so 'than it broke' mixes two patterns. Then is an adverb of time, not a correlative conjunction, and 'it broke' on its own leaves two clauses joined by nothing.
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