Discussion
No sooner had the fight begun _____________ he ran away.
Answer: C
The correct word is than: no sooner had the fight begun than he ran away.
No sooner is a comparative expression, so it is completed by than. The pattern is fixed: No sooner had X happened than Y happened, with the inverted auxiliary after no sooner.
Then is the commonest mistake here; it is an adverb of time and cannot complete the comparison. Immediately and therefore are adverbs too, and neither forms a correlative with no sooner. Compare scarcely and hardly, which take when.
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