Mediaite: Maggie Haberman Says Trump Confidantes Expect Him to Say ‘I Hardly Know’ Mark Robinson Amid ‘Black Nazi’ Scandal
Maggie Haberman Says Trump Confidantes Expect Him to Say ‘I Hardly Know’ Mark Robinson Amid ‘Black Nazi’ Scandal
Hi, everyone I know the sentence"Hardly a day goes by without a visit from someone." is grammatical enough, but are the sentence"A day hardly goes by without a visit from someone." and its emphatic form " Hardly does a day go by without a visit from someone. " grammatical? If so, how are they...
We have just had an interesting exchange on (the origin of equivalents of) "almost" in various languages here, but suddenly some (possible) resemblance with "hardly" raised questions. Some etymological background is very welcome! If you think "hardly" is sometimes interchangeable with "almost"...
Does the pattern 'hardly... when' sound ok in this sentence? Hardly had she closed her eyes, when she fell asleep. There's something about this sentence that makes it odd. Maybe the second part of it. For example, Hardly had she closed her eyes, when somebody knocked on the door' sounds ok to...
hardly . . . than Some usage commentators ban the use of hardly and other minimizers with than, as in Hardly had we sat down to eat than he got up and left. While this can hardly be cited as a serious blunder, it is easily avoided by using when or before instead of than. In the AHD 2008 survey 79% of the panel rejected this use of than.
I've seen this question in an English test aiming to hunting good students, like me . ________ started her car when the other car crashed into hers. A.Hardly had B.she had hardly C.hardly had she D.hardly ever The answer of this question is C, but I hardly see the grammatical structure behind this. I had said that the answer is B, but I don't understand my failure. Thank you ever much.