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Consider the sentence: “Hardly had the teacher entered the...

Consider the sentence: “Hardly had the teacher entered the room when the students stopped talking.”


Which grammatical phenomenon is illustrated?


A

Inversion triggered by negative adverbial, reflecting formal emphasis in English structures.


B

Elliptical construction emphasizing the subject, disregarding auxiliary placement for clarity.


C

Normal subject-verb agreement showing progressive aspect with negative initial expression.


D

Subject-auxiliary inversion typical of interrogatives, unrelated to stylistic fronting in English.


E

Passive voice triggered by stylistic inversion, common in subordinate clauses of formal.