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Vsuresh Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Hardly

Hi

Please help me with the meaning.

I hardly finished my dinner when he called on me.

Does it mean that I was about to finish the dinner or I had just finished the dinner?

  

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The latter. I had just finished my dinner when he called on me. BTW, just say finished dinner or finished my dinner.

— Ivanhr

  • The latter.
  • I had just finished my dinner when he called on me.
  • BTW, just say finished dinner or finished my dinner.
  • "finished the dinner" isn't natural.
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The latter.

I had just finished my dinner when he called on me.


BTW, just say finished dinner or finished my dinner. "finished the dinner" isn't natural.

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Hi there!

"Hardly" means "only just;

almost not;

barely"

So, in this case it means

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