Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks:
______ had Dadi lit the diyas on the balcony ______ a gust of wind blew two of them out.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → No sooner, than
No sooner ... than is a pair of joining words that go together. It shows that the second action came immediately after the first. Dadi lit the diyas, and at once the wind blew two out. “No sooner” is always followed by “than”. When the sentence begins with “No sooner”, the helping verb comes before the subject: “had Dadi lit”.
Complete sentence: No sooner had Dadi lit the diyas on the balcony than a gust of wind blew two of them out.