No sooner had he completed his first novel than he fell seriously ill ........

English Language (Defence) Sentence Improvement

Directions for the following 25 (twenty-five) items : Look at the underlined part of each sentence. Below each sentence are given three possible substitutions for the underlined part. If one of them (a), (b) or (c) is better than the underlined part, indicate your response on the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter (a), (b) or (c). If none of the substitutions improves the sentence, indicate (d) as your response on the Answer Sheet. Thus a “No improvement” response will be signified by the letter (d).

No sooner had he completed his first novel than he fell seriously ill.

he had completed

could he completed

he completed

No improvement

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Explanation:

‘No sooner’ is always followed by ‘Than’ and the verb comes before the subject. Thus, the sentence is grammatically and contextually correct.
Thus, the correct formation would be, ‘No sooner had he completed his first novel than he fell seriously ill’.