question regarding when my sentence starts with hardly

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hi allI know when a sentence starts with rarely, hardly etc it turn into question form likerarely have I been therethe question is that how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CANhardly you can find a car hereor hardly can you find a car herewhich one is correct?thanks

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

Hi Mnrz

The grammatical rules apply but hardly is not a very natural word for your sentence. It's all right with rarely:

Rarely can I find a car here.

CB

CalifJim · Answer

... how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CAN?

Same rule. With these negative polarity items like hardly and rarely, invert subject and operator so that you have the same word order as you would use in a question.

For more on operators, see also and .

CJ

Goodman · Answer

Mnrz57hi all
I know when a sentence starts with rarely, hardly etc it turn into question form like
rarely have I been there

the question is that how about when you are using auxiliary verbs such as CAN

hardly you can find a car here
or
hardly can you find a car here

which one is correct?

thanks

The only way it makes any sense is to rearrange the words "you can hardly find ....here".

The word has a negative connotation to mean "almost none".

He hardly studied at all last week. I don't know how he did in the exam! This means, he almost spent no time on the books.

Mnrz57 · Answer

Hi
thank you all, your reply were perfect

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