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Real_Princess Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Can anyone please explain why the following sentence is incorrect?

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00Hello, 02br
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00 I'm not an English teacher by profession, though I'm helping out some German friends with their English.02br
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00They usually ask for a more grammatical explanation 05000 The following sentence is clearly incorrect, but how do I explain it in grammatical terms? 02br
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01b00* 01i00I worked really hardly and we got the contract02i00.02b02br
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00I think it's got something to do with not following one adverb ending in -ly with another - but then again, we can say 'really,really...'02br
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00I would be very grateful for any help to clarify this please 051030srchttp://www.EnglishForward.com/emoticons/emotion-7.gif31srchttp://www.EnglishForward.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif
  

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0Here, the problem is not grammar, but meaning. 02br 00"Hardly" very rarely means today "in a hard way," but most frequently "barely, in a minimal way" 02br 00You need to use "hard" instead, which does work as an adverb too. com/dictionary/hard

— Marius Hancu

  • 0Here, the problem is not grammar, but meaning.
  • 02br 00"Hardly" very rarely means today "in a hard way," but most frequently "barely, in a minimal way" 02br 00You need to use "hard" instead, which does work as an adverb too.
  • com/dictionary/hard
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0Here, the problem is not grammar, but meaning. 02br
00"Hardly" very rarely means today "in a hard way," but most frequently "barely, in a minimal way" 02br
00You need to use "hard" instead, which does work as an adverb too. 02br
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0Oops! You posted twice. (Thanks for the link in the other thread, Marius.)02br
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