Can you start a sentence with seldom?

In more formal constructions, the adverb seldom can be used at the beginning of a sentence, with the helping verb before the subject: Seldom do we learn from a first mistake.

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Regarding this, can you end a sentence with seldom?

Rarely and seldom can also go at the end of a sentence (often with “very”): We see them rarely. John eats meat very seldom.

In respect to this, can you say very seldom? Very is a perfectly correct way to emphasize it. Very rarely and very seldom are both idiomatic (in BrE) and the former is the more common. “I seldom do” sounds more natural; accentuating it seems redundant.

Hereof, what does I seldom mean?

: in few instances : rarely, infrequently.

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