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- We can use scarcely instead of hardly. The meaning is the same. I'd (I had) scarcely / hardly finished cleaning up the mess when / before my son dropped cake on the floor.
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We can use scarcely instead of hardly. The meaning is the same. I'd (I had) scarcely / hardly finished cleaning up the mess when / before my son dropped cake on the floor. In more formal speech and in literature we sometimes use inversion after hardly and scarcely.
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Hardly ever, rarely, scarcely and seldom are frequency adverbs. We can use them to refer to things that almost never happen, or do not happen very often. They have a negative meaning. We use them without not. Rarely, scarcely and seldom are more common in writing than in speaking: He hardly ever smiles. [a trout is a type of fish]
Dec 30, 2015 · Despite this mistake, the grammar books are on to something. Words like scarcely and hardly certainly do feel “negative-like”. Speakers of most North American dialects will find the following two sentences ungrammatical: *? The computer isn’t hardly working. *? I can’t scarcely afford this.
hardly / scarcely / barely ... when no sooner ... than. When a story is told in the past tense, the adverbials hardly, scarcely, barely and no sooner are often used to emphasise that one event quickly followed another. The verb describing the earlier event is usually in the past perfect tense.
Yes, you can. They mean the same thing, however, hardly is more common to native English speakers than scarcely. Whichever one you decide to use, you will be understood, but if you use scarcely you will sound very formal.
In today’s English lesson for B2 upper-intermediate and C1 Advanced learners in how to use the words Hardly, Scarcely, Barely in English. The three words have very similar meanings and we can use them almost interchangeably.
Mar 26, 2016 · “Hardly” and “scarcely” can be used to mean “almost never,” but “barely” is not used in this way: She hardly (ever) sees her parents these days. She barely sees her parents these days.
