Question

Transform sentences with 'as soon as' to sentences with 'no sooner than'.
As soon as he saw the scary lady, he ran away.
a. No sooner had he seen the scary lady than he ran away.
b. No sooner did he see the scary lady than he ran away.
c. No sooner did he see the scary lady than he ran away.
d. No sooner did he see the scary lady than he ran away.

Answer 1

Hint: Break the given questions down. Study each part carefully. Then, go through the given questions and answer each question with the answer which best fits the given requirements of the question.

Complete answer: In grammar, conjunction may be a part of speech that connects words and phrases that are officially called the conjuncts of the conjunctions. Conjunctions have a crucial function because they join two sentences together. Without conjunctions, we could only make extremely simple sentences. Some conjunctions contain multiple words. They are called correlative conjunctions. So, the first sentence will be split up into two parts: The first part will be ‘He saw the scary lady’ and the second part will be ‘he ran away’. These will be surrounded by the correlative conjunctions. This is the appropriate place to put the conjunctions.

Now, we know what we are looking for. Let’s go through the available options:
a. No sooner had he seen the scary lady than he ran away. - This sentence has placed the conjunctions correctly, however, the verbs are in the wrong tense. This sentence is grammatically incorrect. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
b. No sooner did he see the scary lady than he ran away. - This sentence has placed the conjunctions correctly, however, the verbs are in the wrong tense. This sentence is grammatically incorrect. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
c. No sooner did he see the scary lady than he ran away. - This sentence has placed the conjunctions correctly, however, the verbs are in the wrong tense. This sentence is grammatically incorrect. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
d. No sooner did he see the scary lady than he ran away. - This sentence has the correct tense of the verbs used in the sentence. This is the required answer. So, this is the correct option.

Note: When you begin a sentence with ‘no sooner’, it becomes conjunction. These
conjunctions are used to join sentences with two main subject matters.