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Could you please tell me if "there were hardly any apples left" means "there were no apples left" or "there were, but a few apples left" in the following sentence?
One evening, when I had finished work, I went up on deck to get an apple. I climbed into the barrel and found that there were hardly any apples left.
Source: Treasure Island, Chapter: What I heard in the apple barrel
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JA
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Joseph A Could you please tell me if "there were hardly any apples left" means "there were no apples left" No. 'hardly any (apples)' means 'almost no (apples)', 'very few (apples)'. In the case of a barrel, there were probably only enough apples to cover about a half to three quarters of the bottom of the barrel.
- Joseph A Could you please tell me if "there were hardly any apples left" means "there were no apples left" No.
- 'hardly any (apples)' means 'almost no (apples)', 'very few (apples)'.
- In the case of a barrel, there were probably only enough apples to cover about a half to three quarters of the bottom of the barrel.
- Some of the wood at the bottom would have been showing.
- Joseph A "there were, but a few apples left" I'm not sure what you're saying here.
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Joseph ACould you please tell me if "there were hardly any apples left" means "there were no apples left"
No. 'hardly any (apples)' means 'almost no (apples)', 'very few (apples)'.
In the case of a barrel, there were probably only enough apples to cover about a half to three quarters of the bottom of the barrel. Some of the wood at the bottom would
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