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What do you use in a sentence after no sooner?

"No sooner" is followed by a past perfect tense verb and then a than clause.

Here's the structure:

No sooner + had + past participle + than + clause

Example:

* No sooner had I arrived at the party than the music started blasting.

Explanation:

* No sooner: This phrase indicates that something happened immediately after another event.

* had + past participle: This is the past perfect tense, used to describe an action that was completed before another action in the past.

* than: This word introduces the second event that happened immediately after the first.

* clause: This is a group of words that includes a subject and a verb, and it describes the second event.

Here are some more examples:

* No sooner had I finished my homework than my friends called to go out.

* No sooner had the sun risen than the birds started singing.

* No sooner had the speaker finished his speech than the audience erupted in applause.

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