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    Question

    In the following questions, sentences are given with a

    part in bold. The given phrase in bold may or may not contain an error. If a phrase has an error, one of the options following can replace the incorrect phrase. The correct phrase which replaces the erroneous phrase will be your answer. If the sentence is correct then select ‘No  improvement required’ as your answer. Rarely had the auditors encountered such a blatant violation of financial norms in any of their previous assessments.
    A Rarely the auditors had encountered Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B The auditors had rarely encountered Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Rarely had the auditors been encountered with Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Seldom auditors had encountered Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E No improvement required Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    This sentence is correct and uses the rule of  inversion properly. After negative adverbs/adverbial phrases like rarely, never, seldom, hardly, not only, we invert the subject and auxiliary verb.

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