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Almost not at all’ or ‘only just
- Hardly has a negative meaning. It normally means ‘almost not at all’ or ‘only just’. We can use it in mid position, or before an adjective or a noun: He wore a big hat that covered his head and you could hardly see his face. (you could only see a small part of his face)
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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.
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Aug 20, 2013 · No sooner … than, Hardly…when. If the second event occurs immediately after the first, we can express that idea using the structure no sooner … than. Note that in this structure no sooner introduces the event that occurred first.
Hardly is an adverb. Hardly has a negative meaning. It normally means ‘almost not at all’ or ‘only just’. We can use it in mid position, or before an adjective or a noun: He wore a big hat that covered his head and you could hardly see his face. (you could only see a small part of his face)
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.
1. The key in this case is word order. The "No sooner" part of the "No sooner...than..." construct is always at the beginning of the sentence. However, the word "hardly" is more flexible with regards to its order in the sentence.
Sep 23, 2021 · The word hardly doesn’t mean “not soft,” “difficult,” or “powerful and strong.” The word hardly means “scarcely” – and it is used to show that something is true in a very small way.
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Hardly, barely. Hardly and barely mean 'just', 'not very much', or 'scarcely': The weather is so bad that he can hardly see the road. The weather is so bad that he has difficulty seeing the road. After his accident, he could barely walk.
