Choose the correct sentence?

Explanation: Choose the correct sentence? Explanation: The correct option is 'We had hardly reached the lake when it started raining.' The sentence describes an event that happened immediately after another event in the past, so the correct tense combination is the past perfect ('had reached') followed by the simple past ('started'). Option A ('We had hardly reached the lake when it had started raining') is incorrect because the past perfect is not needed for 'started raining' in this context. Option B ('We had hardly reach the lake then it started raining') is incorrect because 'reach' should be in the past perfect form ('had reached'). Option D ('We had hardly reached the lake after it started raining') is incorrect because 'after' changes the meaning of the sentence. Note: The past perfect tense is used to indicate an action that happened before another action in the past.