Pick out the correct sentence from the following sentences.

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Option 1: Hardly had the function got over, the crowd dispersed. Option 2: Hardly have the function getting over, the crowd dispersed. Option 3: The function was not got over after the crowd were dispersed. Option 4: Hardly had got over the function, the crowd disperse.

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'Hardly had the function got over, the crowd dispersed' correctly uses the past perfect, appropriate for the sequence of events described.
'Hardly have the function getting over' is grammatically incorrect with tense and participle errors.
'The function was not got over after the crowd were dispersed' implies a sequence that is logically incorrect.
'Hardly had got over the function, the crowd disperse' suffers from tense inconsistency and incorrect verb form.

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