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• The underlined segment is erroneous.
• When a story is told in the past tense, the adverbial ‘no sooner’ is often used to emphasise that one event quickly followed another.
• ‘No sooner’ is always followed by ‘than’ and not ‘when’ or ‘before’.
• For example, No sooner had the company launched its new product than it went bankrupt.
• However, in the given sentence, 'when' is used.
• 'Scarcely' is always followed by ‘when’ or ‘before’ and not ‘than’.
• If ‘scarcely’ is in the initial position, the subject and auxiliary are inverted.
• For example, scarcely had she finished reading when she fell asleep.
• Hence, the underlined segment should be replaced with 'scarcely had she' to make the sentence grammatically correct.
• Therefore, option D is the correct answer, and the correct sentence is – Scarcely had she put the baby to sleep when a loud noise woke him up.