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- My piano lesson is on Monday, and I’ve hardly played it this week.
- I can hardly wait.
- There were hardly any tourists.
- She hardly had any sleep. or She had hardly any sleep.
- Hardly [V]had [S]I arrived there when I was called back to the head office 100 miles away.
In this manner, how do you use hard and hardly in a sentence?
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- He has hardly shown up for class this term. …
- Don’t be so lazy! …
- It’s hardly polite to burp in public.
In this regard, is hardly a correct word? Hardly is a negative word and is often used with words like ‘any’ and ‘ever’, but it should not be used with other negative words: We hardly ever do anything interesting. Hardly comes before the main verb of a sentence, but when there is a modal or auxiliary verb, hardly usually comes after it: I can hardly breathe.
Regarding this, what does hardly working mean?
to hardly work: to work very little.
What does it mean when someone says hardly?
Definition of hardly
1a —used to emphasize a minimal amount or degree I hardly knew her. [=I didn’t know her well at all.] It’s almost new—there’s hardly a scratch [=there are almost no scratches] on it. There’s been hardly any [=almost no] news. There’s hardly any [=almost none] left.
What is hardly followed by?
Note that hardly, scarcely and barely are followed by when , while no sooner is followed by than . ( Sooner is the comparative form of soon. )
What is synonym of Hardly?
scarcely, barely, only just, not much, faintly, narrowly, slightly, rarely, little. by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one’s teeth, by a hair’s breadth, by a nose. almost not, not quite.