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Hardly and scarcely can mean ‘almost not at all’ or ‘only just’. Hardly is much more common than scarcely, and scarcely is more formal: Jen was so tired. She could scarcely keep her eyes open. I hardly know them. I’ve only met them once.
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HARDLY, SCARCELY, BARELY, NO SOONER. 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.
Hardly, barely, scarcely, no sooner. These adverbials often refer to an event which quickly follows another in the past and are usually used with past perfect. Hardly, scarcely and barely are followed by when in the contrasting clause, and no sooner is followed by than.
We can use hardly or no sooner to say that two things happened in quick succession (i.e. there was a very short space of time between the two things happening). We say hardly . . . when / before . . . to say that something happened and another thing happened very soon afterwards.
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.
In today's English lesson you will learn how we use the words Hardly, Scarcely, Barely in English. The three words have similar meanings and you can use them interchangeably.
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used to suggest that something is not at all reasonable or likely. It was scarcely an occasion for laughter. She could scarcely complain, could she? You can scarcely blame Annie. It is scarcely surprising that the reforms have provoked such widespread discontent. Grammar Point hardly / scarcely / barely / no sooner.
