2024年3月30日 · (b) Ann had hardly started eating - here, the adverb едва [jɪdˈva] is the option, which meaning is closer to the temporal "just". This adverb is used whenever there is a time sequence in which some event occurs immediately after a person starts/finishes doing; The adverb еле [ˈjelʲe] is used like the едва above, but only in the ...

2013年4月2日 · Hardly had West European leaders accepted the proposal — risking popular opposition — than Carter changed his mind and cancelled the weapon. Cold War Europe: 1945–1989. Young, J. London: John Young, 1991

2013年2月26日 · Hardly a man saw the film .....(which, who, whom, but) was greatly moved by the spirit of the hero." the answer is who - all the others just don't make sense and would never be used the sentence is unusual though: it means barely anyone who saw the movie was moved by the hero's spirit.

2014年1月5日 · "Hardly" implies gradations of something. "I can hardly hear you" = "I hear so little that it's almost like hearing nothing—but I do hear a little." But agreeing to do something is a yes/no proposition—usually there are not gradations of it. If the decision was difficult, but finally you agreed to do it, then maybe you reluctantly agreed.

2011年9月26日 · And, of course, depending on intonation, in saying There were hardly fifty people there, we may be using the softer meaning, i.e we could just mean there were nearly fifty people there. So for me, in BE, we have both a hard and a soft meaning for hardly, just as we have for quite. I suspect that some speakers just use the hard meaning, for the ...

2016年10月30日 · hardly . . . than Some usage commentators ban the use of hardly and other minimizers with than, as in Hardly had we sat down to eat than he got up and left. While this can hardly be cited as a serious blunder, it is easily avoided by using when or before instead of than. In the AHD 2008 survey 79% of the panel rejected this use of than.

2011年9月16日 · "Hardly ever" means "rarely", but "hardly" does not. If you want to consider Glen's suggestion of a meaning for the word, "I hardly go to the gym" can also mean that I go daily, but while I am there I do little more than -- for example -- peddle a stationery bicycle for 30 seconds and perhaps then take a shower; I certainly do not do any kind ...

2014年2月11日 · Actually, I want to write something such as " There are hardly any attempt s to carry out above type of studies ". So, what is the better way I should do it? There are hardly any attempt s to carry out above type of studies. or There is …

2015年2月25日 · The verb describing the earlier event is usually in the past perfect tense. If hardly, scarcely, barely and no sooner are in the initial position, the subject and auxiliary are inverted: - Hardly had I arrived home when my phone rang. (I had hardly arrived home when my phone rang.) I want to ask why we can't use that structure in the present tense.

2024年1月18日 · Hi, Bonnie. The singular seems more likely to me in that sentence: hardly any difference. But the plural is possible. If people can see a couple of small differences between the sisters, then hardly any differences is reasonable.