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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
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Hardly was I out of one problem when the ...

Hi

Is the red sentence totally natural in spoken and written English? Any suggestions please?

Those were difficult times. Hardly was I out of one problem when the other surfaced.

Thanks,

Tom

  

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If you are assigned to use "hardly" in this manner, it is a decent sentence. I wouldn't invert the word order for this particular sentence. It's right, but it doesn't sound very good.

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  • If you are assigned to use "hardly" in this manner, it is a decent sentence.
  • I wouldn't invert the word order for this particular sentence.
  • It's right, but it doesn't sound very good.
  • The following sentence sounds better.
  • Hardly had I escaped one problem when another would surface.
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If you are assigned to use "hardly" in this manner, it is a decent sentence. I wouldn't invert the word order for this particular sentence. It's right, but it doesn't sound very good.

The following sentence sounds better.

Hardly had I escaped one problem when another would surface.

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Mr. Tom

Hi

Is the red sentence totally natural in spoken and written English? Any suggestions please?

Those were difficult times. Hardly was I out of one problem when the other surfaced.

Thanks,

Tom

It's OK for written English, but it wouldn't be very likely to come up in a conversatio

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