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- hardly ever adverb : almost never : very seldom we hardly ever see them anymore
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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]
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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.
The meaning of HARDLY EVER is almost never : very seldom. How to use hardly ever in a sentence.
adverb B1+. You use hardly in expressions such as hardly ever, hardly any, and hardly anyone to mean almost never, almost none, or almost no-one. We ate chips every night, but hardly ever had fish. [+ ever] Most of the others were so young they had hardly any experience. [+ any] Hardly anyone slept that night.
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HARDLY EVER / RARELY. What can we use if we almost never do something? It’s not zero percent but maybe 5% possibility of it happening. In this case we use the adverbs HARDLY EVER or RARELY. I hardly ever get angry. OR you can say… I rarely get angry; They both mean the same thing.
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Hardly is an adverb. It has a totally different meaning from hard . You use hardly to modify a statement when you want to emphasize that only a small amount or detail makes it true, and it is best to consider the opposite as true.
