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Daxiaoaixad Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Adverbs at the beginning of a sentence.

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12br 12br 12blockquote 11font 00The first sentence is very awkward; the second sentence could be improved (Never have so many people been unemployed as today). I hope this helps. 02font 00 0-

— Philip

  • 12br 12br 12blockquote 11font 00The first sentence is very awkward; the second sentence could be improved (Never have so many people been unemployed as today).
  • I hope this helps.
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01cite10Daxiaoaixad12cite10Is there a difference meaning of the two following sentences?12br
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0 Do you mean if we put the adverb in the front of the sentence, we should reorder the sentence? I have here another example:02br
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00 * Juan hardly remembers the accident that took his sister's life02br
00 !! Hardly remembers Juan the accident that took his sister's life02br
00 ** Hardly Juan remembers the accident that took his sister's life.0
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0The inverted sentences have already been discussed. Have a look here 05000, it might help you.02br
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00Your sentence should read "hardly does Juan remember etc...", but then I don't think natives would often begin a sentence with "hardly".02br
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01cite10Daxiaoaixad12cite10Do you mean if we put the adverb in the front of the sentence, we should reorder the sentence? I have here another example:12br
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10* Juan hardly remembers the accident that took his sister's life11b11font10Sounds good.12font12b12
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0that thread helps a lot 05100 There is a sentence in it:02br
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01b00No sooner02b00 did the 01u00bell02u00 ring than the children ran out of the school.02br
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00 I don't understand the meaning of "No sooner". Can sombody explain it?02br
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0Yes, it means: "the children ran out of the school as soon as the bell rang".0-
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01cite10Daxiaoaixad12cite10that thread helps a lot 15010 There is a sentence in it:12br
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11b10No sooner12b10 did the 11u10bell12u10 ring than the children ran out of the school.12br
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10 I don't understand the meaning of "No soon
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0 01font00(EX) Never have so many people been unemployed as today.02br
00(EX) Hardly does Juan remember the accident that took his sister's life.02br
02font00These constructions are called "negative inversion". 02br
00The rule is: when a negative adverb (like "never") or a quasi-negative adverb (like "hardly") is put at
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0I agree with you, Paco 05002br
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00The conjugated part of a verbal form should be in the second position - regardless of adverbs like yesterday or complement/adverbs separated by a comma -. I'll add that the subject cannot follow the main verb, that's why in the above construction it is replaced by an auxiliary (do, does, did). 02br
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00Yet, it
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01. Hardly does Juan remember the accident that took his sister's life.02br
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00This sounds a bit odd to me. "Hardly" here relates to the degree of remembering; but it seems to me that when "hardly" fronts a sentence, it tends to have a temporal sense:02br
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002. Hardly had the Prince touched the ground than he felt himself violently seized by an uns
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