| 词组 | hardly scarcely and no sooner |
| 释义 | Contents overview hardly , scarcely and no soonerno sooner, hardly and scarcelyno sooner, hardly and scarcely, hardly and scarcely 48011177480 hardly, scarcely and no soonerThese three expressions can be used (often with a past perfect tense, 53) to suggest that one thing happened very soon after another. Note the sentence structure:… hardly … when/before …… scarcely … when/before …… no sooner … than …I had hardly/scarcely closed my eyes when the phone rang.She was hardly/scarcely inside the house before the kids started screaming.I had no sooner closed the door than somebody knocked.We no sooner sat down in the train than I felt sick.In a formal or literary style, inverted word order is possible (270.7).Hardly had I closed my eyes when I began to imagine fantastic shapes.No sooner had she agreed to marry him than she started to have doubts.Previous Next |
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